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Fuel / Petrol

Americans spend almost $1 billion on petrol every 24 hours
In Venezuela, fuel costs $0.02. Thats right, 2 cents
The highest fuel price is in the Netherlands. They have a 158% fuel tax making it $2.56 a litre
The highest fuel tax in the world is in the UK - a whooping 188%
In Iran, when fuel prices went up to 15 cents a litre, a lynch mob went across Tehran torching gas stations

Half of the world’s gold is produced in South Africa
It is a custom for South Africans to name their babies the first thing that comes to mind after birth
South Africa boasts more (6) Nobel prize winners than Mexico (3), China (1) and India (2) put together
In South Africa, @ is called “aapstert” wich means a “monkey’s tail”
In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn

Your brain uses less power than a mini flashlight, about 12 watts. Know more about this fact
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean. (someone else said this)
Rice and other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain function
Your brain is almost 80% water
Everyday, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephone wires in the world put together
Your brain weighs less than your skin

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

California has more people than the entire population of Canada combined
California grows more than 30% of the nations food supply
1 in 5 Californians are born overseas
In 1994, California became home to more than a third of USA’s immigrant population
The Lake Shrine/Ashram in California has some of the only Ghandi’s ashes allowed outside India
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has enough steel wires in its cables to circle the earth at the equator 3.5 times

Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia has no native monkey. (in the wild)
Australia’s box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the deadliest jellyfish in the world
At an estimated population of 40 million, there are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
Australia owns more sea (16 million km2) than it does land area (7.6 million km2)
Australians are the biggest users of fresh water per capita
Australia wastes over 2.6 Billion plastic bottles every year

Florence Nightingale, the most famous nurse in modern history, was only a nurse for three years of her life
James Derham in 1783 was a black slave who worked as a nurse, which eventually paid for his freedom. He then moved to Philadelphia and became a doctor
In poor countries, there is 1 psychiatric nurse to every 1,000,000 psychiatric patients
Nepal has the lowest ratio of nurses per capita in the world. The highest is in Finland
The first nursing school dates back to 250 B.C, and was founded in India
In olden times, male nurses were only found in organizations such as The Teutonic Knights, the Knights of Lazarus and the Knights Hospitalers (founded in 1119)

In a year, an average person walks 4 miles making their bed. (I’m sure this doesnt apply to teenagers who walk an average of 10 meters a year in comparison)

The Internal Revenue Service audits 87% of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions