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These are some fun facts I found on BrainBashers:

· The Earth goes around the sun at a speed of about 66,000 mph.
· Greenland is 21 times larger than Iceland.
· Tension is a force on a body directed to produce strain, it can be considered to be negative compression.
· The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service is the body responsible for maintaining global time and deciding when to add leap seconds.
· Today's fastest supercomputer is over 6,000 times faster than the average home computer.
· A day is actually 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds long.
· A second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. (that I cannot even begin to understand)
· The fastest computer on the planet, Blue Gene/L, can perform 91,500,000,000,000 operations a second.
· The Steel Dragon roller coaster, in Japan, is over 1.5 miles long.
· The Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster, in Ohio, was the first coaster to reach speeds of 120 mph.
· The Grand Canyon was discovered in 1540.
· The largest moth in the world is the atlas and has a wingspan up to 12 inches.
· 4 million new items are added to eBay every single day.
· It rains on 350 days of the year on Mt Waialeale, Hawaii.

Again, the site is BrainBashers. The fun facts appear randomly one the front page. Tehy also have fun illusions, games, and many other things. Visit!

Signed, Karuri-sama