CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.


It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.

The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth at 600 km, traveling at the immense speed of 27 400 km/h.


Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units.

Sources:
http://www.hightechscience.org/funfacts.htm
http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/factfile/factfile1_20.asp
http://www.funology.com/thatsodd/odd_humanbody001.cfm
http://www.geocities.com/assabfn/spacetides/spacefacts.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/3487/qp.html