#7 Strange But True Facts · 7:18pm Sep 10th, 2018

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Here are your amazing facts for the week!

1. You need to consume a quart of water each day for four months to equate to the amount of blood your heart pumps in one hour.

2. There are 171,476 words in the English language; however, the average English-speaker only uses/knows roughly 25,000 to 30,000.

3. Space officially begins at the universal marker of the Karman Line. This invisible boundary is 100km (62 miles) above the Earth. In theory, if you could drive your car upwards, you could be in space in less than an hour.

4. Glycera dibranchiata, also known as bloodworms, are a type of water-dwelling worm with teeth partially made out of copper.

5. Every Apple iPhone ad displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.

6. The word for the illness received from inhaling volcanic particles is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

7. When money is considered as the physical coins, bank notes, and the ones deposited in both checking and savings accounts; the total amount globally is approximately $36.8 trillion. However, when this physical money includes the ones held in the accessible accounts, the amount rises to roughly $90.4 trillion.

8. It is illegal to kill a bigfoot in the state of Washington. Penalties for committing this act include a $1,000 fine and up to a year in prison.

9. There is a mental health illness, called Cotards Syndrome, or "Walking Dead Syndrome," in which the person afflicted believes they are dead.

10. Modern Formula 1 cars can drive upside down in tunnels at the right speeds.

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