Stupid Facts - Life and the Universe

Distilled from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

• Due to Plate Tectonics, Europe and North America are drifting apart at the same speed a human finger nail grows.

• A human finger nail grows approximately 2 yards in a lifetime.

• The distance from the surface of the Earth to its core is 3,959 miles.

• Coral reefs constitute less than 1% of the oceans' space, but are home to about 25% of the oceans' fish.

• DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

• The genes of any two people are 99.9% the same.

• There is nearly 6 feet of DNA in every human cell.

• DNA was discovered in 1869 by Johan Friederich Miescher.