UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE FACTSHere are 100 good ones to start you off…1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will beheated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotterthan the surface of the Sun.2. If you trace your family tree back 25generations, you will have 33,554,432 directancestors – assuming no incest was involved.3. The average distance between the stars in thesky is 20 million miles.4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000years to get to the nearest star to earth.5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur inthe world, but not a single species of toad orsalamander was affected. No one knows why,nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth,and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 milesdown.7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin everyday.8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million milliontons.9. Honey is the only food consumed by humansthat doesn’t go off.10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mulecan’t.12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops asecond.13. There are 22 miles more canals inBirmingham UK than in Venice.14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.15. Facetious and abstemious contain all thevowels in their correct order.16. Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snowbut none for hello.17. The word “set” has the most definitions inthe English language.18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelledwithout repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” isthe hardest tongue-twister.