What is the longest recorded attack of hiccuping, sneezing, or yawning?
The longest hiccuping attack lasted 65 years.
The longest sneezing fit lasted 978 days.
The longest yawning ordeal took five weeks.
Chinese astronomers made the first recorded observation of Halley’s comet in 240 B.C. In 1705, English astronomer Edmund Halley was the first to theorize that comets travel in regular orbits around the sun. Proposing that “the great comet” observed in 1682 made periodic visits about every 76 years, he predicted that it would return in…
No, long-term constipation does not cause poisoning. There are several cases on record in which fecal material has been stored in the bowels for over a year without causing any ill effects. Aside from the discomfort of carrying around an extra 60 to 100 pounds of weight.
The earth moves at 66,641 miles per hour around the sun.
Actually called Newton’s law of gravitation, it describes the degree to which one body of matter attracts another. That attraction is in direct proportion to the product of the bodies’ masses, and in inverse proportion to the square of the distance between them. This law can be expressed in a formula first set forth in…
Assuming that the heart beats at least once a second, by the time a person is 70, his or her heart will have beat at least 2.8 billion times.
In our galaxy alone, there are about 100 billion stars. In the universe that we can see, the number of stars is estimated at 10^22.