DID YOU KNOW??

Part 7

10 Randoms But Amazing Facts

1. The human circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long.

2. The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

3. Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

4. The longest TV ad in history is 14 hours long.

5. The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros.

6. The longest place name in the word, at 85 letters, is “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu,” New Zealand. Locals just call it Taumata Hill.

7.  “Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th-century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway, just like the technology united computers and cell phones.

8. The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.

9. Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.

10. There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any American state name. There's a Z in Arizona and an X in Texas, but no Q in any of them.