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Burj Dubai

The burj is so tall that you can see the sun set twice. Once at the bottom and again if you then take an elevator right to the top of the tower.
The elevators will have the world’s longest travel distance from lowest to highest stop
The hot water that condensates on the building is collected to water the building’s flora and fauna. It creates about 20 Olympic sized swimming pools per year of water
The amount of steel used for the tower if laid end to end, would extend over a quarter of the way around the world.
The tower uses enough electricity to power over 360 million light bulbs
There will be 200 metres of dancing fountains at the foot of the Burj Dubai.
The Burj Dubai spire will be visible from as far away as 95 kms.
The curtain wall of Burj Dubai will be equivalent to 17 football fields
The total glass requirement is 142,000 square meters

1024 GIGABYTES is 1 TERABYTE. 1024 TERABYTE is 1 PETABYTE
1 petabyte is worth 13.3 years of HD movies
20 petabytes is the amount of data google processes daily
50 petabytes equates to mankind’s entire written work since the beginning of recorded text… written in all languages
In order to process the world’s data needs, worldwide data centers consume the same amount of energy as Sweden

Toy Story was orignally called ‘You Are a Toy’
The Pizza Planet delivery truck, which appears in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, also appeared in all three Toy Story films
In their most productive state, Pixar can complete 3.5 minutes of animation a week
Jim Carey was originally casted to voice Buzz Lightyear but Pixar could not afford his fees
Pixar had 300 computers rendering frames 24 hours a day
When an animator is done with a shot (he/she has watched it an average of 3,000 times!), John Lasseter tells them to go pick out a toy as a reward. The number of toys on an animator’s desk demonstrates his prowess.
Buzz Lightyear was first named Lunar Larry
Mattel didn’t want Barbie to be in the movie, thinking it was going to be a flop
The voice of the little green aliens were made with the use of helium gas
The number 95 is seen throughout the movies, referring to the year 1995 when the film was first released
In Andy’s room, some books were names of Pixar’s short films or Pixar staff
Toy Story 3 is the first animation to hit over $1 billion dollars in sales
Andy’s car reads A111 on the front and A113 on the back
The entire animation crew shaved their heads prior to working on Toy Story 3
Andy didn’t have a dad in Toy Story because humans were to expensive to animate

Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of oil
The amount of gas burned off by the oil companies just to overcome “over pressure” during oil production in Nigeria is more than enough to power the whole continent of Africa (but it is cheaper to burn it than to produce energy from it, and they make so much money from oil that they do not care about the gas produced)

The world’s 7 billionth person is a girl. Symbolically, she is either the tiny little girl named Danica May Camacho from Manila, Philipines (CBS news) or another little girl named Nargis from Uttar Pradesh in India (NGO Plan International)
Our population grew by another 95 people since you started reading this.

Smurfs are Belgian
The smurf comics were created after a misunderstanding over salt
Smurfs are said to be “three apples tall”
The smurf franchise generates about $10 million in royalties annually and are worth about $4 billion
Smurfette was created by Gargamel and was originally a brunette
Smurfs were the first to introduce the zombie movie theme to the world in the episode “The purple smurfs”. This was 6 years before ‘The night of the living dead’
A petrol station in the US once had the slogan ‘service with a smurf’
Their creator Peyo, doesn’t like Smurfette
The book that Brainy smurf was always writing is called ‘Quotations by Brainy Smurf’
There are a total of 103 smurfs
Smurfs were once linked to Communism, Ku Klux Klan and even Neo Nazisim. All of which are untrue
Smurfs turn purple when they hold their breath
The world record for the most people dressed as smurfs happend in Swansea in 2009
A lot of smurfs from the comics never made it to the cartoon; Timid Smurf, Enamored Smurf, Finance Smurf

By 2010, electronically stored information was estimated at 1.2 billion terabytes (by IDC)
If these information were stored on CDs, the stack would reach the moon and back.
Our digital world grew by 2/3 in 2010 alone
An estimated 15 per cent of that information would be stored in an internet cloud system

If all the people in the world were a grain of sand, we could all fit into a can of tuna

0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe
Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447
Enough sunlight falls on the earth in an hour to power our entire population for one year
In 1990, a solar powered airplane flew over 4000km without fuel
Weather related damages in 1998 alone cost more than those between 1980 to 1990 ($82 billion dollars)
The United States of America accounts for 5% of the world’s population, but consume over 25% of its energy

If you shut down your computer for 60 seconds, this is what you will miss online: