About 3 people are born every second, and about 1 1/3 people die every second. The result is about 2 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on the Earth now than before you finished reading this.

The first computer was ENACT - (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) first introduced in 1946.

The total combined weight of the world's ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners.

Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860.

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and a half miles in diameter.

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies.

Two years, four months and three days before the successful flights of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, a birdlike monoplane took off at dawn on August 14, 1901, near Bridgeport, Connecticut. Gustavo Whitehead, designer and builder, flew the plane about a half mile. This might have been the first flight in the sky by a machine-powered aircraft - but there is no concrete evidence.

A pig is mentioned only twice in the Bible but is rated as the fourth most intelligent animal. Sheep are mentioned 45 times, goats 88 times, dogs 14 times and lions 89 times but domestic cats are not mentioned.

An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h - (43 mph).



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