26 January 2013

Answers to critical questions

Did you know...

1. The number of mosquitoes, each sucking once, it would take to completely drain the average human of blood - 1.2 million

2. The speed at which a cockroach can move - 1 metre/second

3. The number of people in the worl who have never received or made a telephone call - 50%

4. The longest recorded flight of a chicken - 13 seconds

5. The length of a line a typical lead pencil can draw - 56.32 kilometres

6. The estimated number of languages in the world - 6,800

7. The number of people you share a birthday with - 9 million

8. The average number of questions a 4 year old asks in a day - 437

9. The number of brains a leech has - 32

10. The number of times the average driver will honk in a lifetime - 15,250

11. The number of bones you are born with - 300

12. The time it takes for sloths to completely digest their food - 14 days

13. The number of possible ways to playing the first four moves per side, in a game of chess - 318,979,564,000

Now that you are duly impressed and your knowledge base is usefully supplemented - have a good day!  Either that or start counting...


Knowledge gleaned from Skyways Magazine...Airlink: Freedom of the African Sky

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