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Some Scientific Facts
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Shamim Ansary:
– The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
– It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
– 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
– The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
– Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
– When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
– Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
– Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
– In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
– If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
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