Science and Technology

Bizarre Fact #21:
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Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.

Bizarre Fact #22:
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Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks.

Bizarre Fact #23:
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Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled.

Bizarre Fact #24:
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Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.

Bizarre Fact #25:
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Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe.

Bizarre Fact #26:
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If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this plant would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.

Bizarre Fact #27:
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In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers.

Bizarre Fact #28:
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In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy."

Bizarre Fact #29:
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In February 1878, the first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut. The book was one page long and had fifty names in it.

Bizarre Fact #30:
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In Johannesburg, the average car will be involved in an accident once every four years.