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computer data
  • One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York’s empire state building
  • 50 gigabytes of information can hold up to 3 piles of single spaced typed pages that is taller than the Eiffel tower
  • According to the university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information are produced & stored magnetically per year

numeral
  • The digits 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are known as Arabic numerals but were originally defined by Indian mathematicians
  • The symbols for 1, 4 and 6 were accepted first. The symbols for 2, 7 and 9 were only accepted 100 years later

Atom
  • An atom is made out of a nucleus and orbiting electrons. If the nucleus were a size of a marble, and the electron the width of a hair, the region the electrons orbits would be as far as 2 miles
  • The concept of atoms came from India

pie, 3.142
  • Pie (3.142…) has been correctly cited up to the 42,194th decimel point by Hiroyuki Goto, of Keio University in Tokyo in February 1995
  • The pie number has also been used in some spy codes due to its complexities

weather
  • A one day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations

numbers
  • It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion (just try it..hehehe)
  • The numbers 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999 are all multiples of 37. Thanx liz chell
  • A googol is a number 1 followed by 100 zeros
  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

urine
  • The entire worlds output of urine takes about 45 minutes to go over the Niagra falls
  • In certain types of liver diseases, urine becomes dark yellow
  • A medicine called Rifampacin can turn urine bright orange
  • A medicine called Propofol can turn urine green

metric
  • The metric system was to blame for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter.

Las Vegas
  • There ARE clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.Thanx CPPnz and udamann (who lived there for 5 years)
  • To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.

heart
  • The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood as far as 30 feet
  • In a year, your heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times! Thanx eric c
  • 85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives. (I’m sure it can’t be true, but what the hell)