Did you know that the average annual rainfall in desert areas is 25 cubic millimeters per year? And that 85 degrees Celsius is the temperature that the lichen Ramalina maciformis can withstand on the burning Saharan rocks?
Did you know that when you get out of the shower, the bacterial population on your skin goes from 150,000 to 6,000? And how many microbes are there on the computer keyboard? Discover this and other curious figures about specks of dust, germs, excrement, ...
Did you know that the interplanetary dust particles that fall to Earth each year weigh a total of 11,000 tons? We compiled some curious figures about meteorites, ice balls, rain, lightning, interplanetary dust and other "fallen from the sky".
50 kilobytes is the "weight" in memory of a text of 25 pages, and 3.5 exabytes (more than 3.5 trillion bytes) would be necessary to archive all the photographs in the world. Discover these and other curious technophrases.
Looking for a reason for recurring nightmares, like leaving the house without your pants on? Forget Freudian explanations. According to new research, the Earth's magnetic field is to blame.
An average African elephant weighs 5,000 kilos, the Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs 10 million kilos and 555,000,000 kilos of aluminum are produced each year in the world, enough to make 17,000 million cans of beer.
Corals in the deep ocean can live for more than 4,000 years. With such astonishing age, these ancient invertebrates have just become the oldest known marine beings, according to PNAS magazine.
Did you know that the total weight of the meteorites that fall on Earth each year is 150,000 kilos? And that in the Sun there are tornadoes of incandescent gas that cross the poles at 200,000 km / h? Surprise yourself with these and other figures from the Universe.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
