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- Trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
- Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
- Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
- A tree does not reach its most productive stage of carbon storage for about 10 years.
- One of the tallest soft wood trees is the General Sherman, a giant redwood sequoia of California. General Sherman is about 275 ft or 84 m high with a girth of 25 ft or 8 m.
- Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
- A mature birch tree can produce up to 1 million seeds per year.
- Trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
- Trees grow from the top, not from the bottom as is commonly believed. A branch’s location on a tree will only move up the trunk a few inches in 1000 years.
- The largest area of forest in the tropics remains the Amazon Basin, amounting to 81.5 million acres.
- Tree leaves help trap and remove tiny particles of soot and dust which otherwise damages human lungs.
- By creating shade, trees moderate temperatures both globally and in the micro-climates of cities and counties.
- Trees create buffers to reduce noise.
- The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to less crime.
- Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
- The cottonwood tree seed is the seed that stays in flight the longest. The tiny seed is surrounded by ultra-light, white fluff hairs that can carry it on the air for several days.
- Tree rings provide precise information about environmental events, including volcanic eruptions.
- One acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
- Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
Amazing Funny Facts
- It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
- Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
- A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
- The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
- The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
- Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
- Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
Amazing Human Facts
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
- The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
- There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
- It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
- The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
- The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.)
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
- The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
- The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
- It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
- Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
- The pancreas produces Insulin.
- Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
- The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
- After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
- A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
- During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
- Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
- Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
- After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
- If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
