30 Amazing facts about the world

A great compilation of facts about our world.

1.The Sun’s diameter is about 870,000 miles wide.  The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and is 333,000 times heavier.  That means if you put the Sun on a scale, you would need 333,000 objects that weigh as much as the Earth on the other side to make it balance. 
2.A human adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
3.You Forget 90% of your Dreams.
4.“Time” has not always existed.
5.Time on Earth is actually slowing down.
6.Cultural background affects our perception of time.
7.We Only Dream of What We Know.
8.You are paralyzed while you sleep.
9.The U.S. imports 86% of its seafood. Only 0.1% is inspected for drug contamination.
10.Apples, celery, and bell peppers are the most pesticide-contaminated produce.
11.Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years.
12.Jupiter's gravity is used to catapult space-craft on deep space missions further away. This is how the Voyager missions of 1975 managed to succeed.
13.Charles and Vincent Chevalier invented the first camera in Paris, 1724.
14.The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
15.The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
16.Out of all the muscles in your body, the muscles that control your eyes are the most active.
17.You have all the muscle fiber you will ever have at birth. Once damaged they can't be replaced.
18.You take approximately 5 million steps per year using your leg muscles.
19.About 1/3 of all internet searches are for pornography. Experts have done special research on the topic and estimate that at least 65% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women. In addition, about 28,000 internet users are watching X rated videos at any given time.
20.Over half of all the downloading and uploading online is file sharing that is often considered illegal.
21.The first personal computer was the Berkeley Enterprises "Simon" which sold for $300 in 1950.
22.Vatnajokull (Iceland) is the largest glacier by volume in Europe.
23.The top ten generous countries are located in Europe.
24.The country with smallest percentage of forested area is Iceland.
25.Over 60 million Europeans sodiers were mobilized during the first World War.
26.North Koreans celebrate their own version of christmas.
27.China is roughly 3,200 miles (5,200 km) wide, which is large enough to cover about 5 separate time zones (the U.S. has 4).
28.Japan is currently considered the skinniest industrialized nation in the world, and there’s a very good reason for that—it’s against the law to be fat.
29.Indians eat with the right hand, wipe with the left.
30.Earth has a total population of 7.092 billion.