Did you know that…?

Researched by: Marie Michelle N. Balinga

• A flying champagne cork is three times more possible to be deadly than a bite of a venomous spider.

• On July 2, 1998, David Willey joined the World’s Longest Firewalk across 165 ft. of burning coals. The temperature range of Firewalk coals is from 800-1,300 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to melt steel.

• The human body has 650 muscles.
  An elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles.

• An environmentally friendly ‘thermoacoustic freezer’ is being developed by Ben and Jerry’s.
  Acoustic sound waves help move heat away from the ice cream, keeping it cold.

• Spider silk is stronger than the Kevlar in bulletproof vests.
  A strand of spider silk, the width of a pencil, could stop a Boeing 747 in flight!
  
  
• Clouds cover 1/2 the Earth’s sky at any one time.
  It takes a million cloud droplets to form one raindrop.

• If a spaceship approached a black hole, it would appear to go slower the closer it got to it.
  Then it would appear to stop … turn orange, then red, and fade into nothingness!
  
  
• Number of days a human can live without water: 3 days.
  Number of days a cockroach can live without its head: 9 days.

• Sound level the human ear can withstand without damage: 130 decibels.
  Sound level of an average rock concert: 150 decibels.

• The record for the deepest underwater free dive (without breathing) is 511 feet.
  That’s deeper than American submarines descended during World War II.