1 ) If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon
Whenever you fold a piece of paper, it’s thickness grows exponentially. By the time you fold a piece of paper 20 times, it would be 6 miles high, taller than Mount Everest. That means that 42 folds would be enough to make it the 239,000 kilometers to the moon. The most we’ve ever managed is around 13.
2) If you have 57 people in a room, there's a 99% probability that at least two of them share a birthday.
Add an extra 13 people and the chances increase to 99.99%.
3) The world's entire population of ants weighs the same as the entire population of humans.
Ants outnumber humans one million to one, making up for their small size.
4) The Internet weighs as much as a single strawberry
The vast amount of digital information in motion is made of electrons, just like everything else. It’s estimated that global Internet traffic weighs around 50 grams.
5) Russia has a bigger landmass than Pluto
Pluto is one of the largest dwarf planets that we know of. With a surface area of 1.67 x 107 square kilometers, Pluto comes in as large as 3.3% of the surface of planet Earth.
6) The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
7) 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.
8 ) Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
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