Some fun with Numbers!

Apr 14

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Some random number facts:

  • 1961 was the last year to read the same upside down as the right way up.
  • The next year to read the same upside down as the right way up will be 6009.
  • There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
  • There are 168 hours in a week.
  • A jiffy is equates to 1/100th of a second.
  • The Leaning Tower of Piza contains 294 steps
  • There are 6500 windows on the Empire State Building
Maths:
  • 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of 37.
  • 111111111 multiplied by 111111111 equals 12345678987654321.
  • The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
  • Two opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7.
  • Google is actually a number; where the digits are a 1, followed by one hundred 0′s. A Googleplex is a number with 1, followed by a thousand zero digits.
Some odds:
  • 285-1 : The odds of giving birth to identical twins
  • 8100-1 : The odds of giving birth to triplets
  • 729,000-1 : The odds of giving birth to quadruplets
  • 800,000-1 : The approximate odds of being struck by lightening
  • 649,739-1 : Odds of being dealt a royal flush in a game of poker
Odds of winning in the UK National Lottery:
  • 13,983,816-1 : All six numbers
  • 2,330,636-1 : Five numbers and a bonus ball
  • 55,492-1 : Five numbers
  • 1,033-1 : Four numbers
  • 57-1 : Three numbers
  • Therefore meaning you have more of a chance being struck by lightening than winning the national lottery jackpot!
Famous people with high IQ’s:
  • Madonna… 140.
  • Al Gore… 140.
  • Hugh Hefner… 152.
  • Carol Vorderman… 154.
  • Clive Sinclair… 159.
  • Quentin Taratino… 160.
  • Bill Gates… 160.
Estimated IQ’s of people in the past:
  • George Washington… 118.
  • Captain James Cook… 160.
  • Albert Einstein… 160.
  • Charles Darwin… 165.
  • Dr David Livingston… 170.
  • Charles Dickins… 180.
  • Michelangelo… 180.
  • Sir Issac Newton… 190.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci… 220.
Temperature Conversions:
  • Fahrenheit to Celsius = subtract 32, multiply by 5, divide by 9.
  • Celsius to Fahrenheit = multiply by 9, divide by 5, add 32.
Human Body Facts:
  • It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown.
  • 85% of the human body comprises of water.
  • A sneeze can exceed speeds of 160km per hour.
  • A baby in the womb acquires it’s fingerprints at the age of 3 months.
  • Humans have 206 bones, but 300 when a baby.
  • Humans have 33 vertebrae.
  • There are over 3000 taste buds on the tongue.
  • On the average scalp are 100,000 hairs
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