...Tidbits...

BIO - FACTS

1. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
2. If you go back 25 generations, there are 33,554,432 people in your direct line of descent (parents, parents of parents, etc.)
3. The total length of all the DNA strands n our body if laid along would cover 200 trips from the moon to earth!
4. The total number of possible combinations of human DNA is 10 3,480,000,000 (a 1 followed by more than 3 billion zeros). Does this mean that if so many animals were born already, nature would start making clones, left with no more combinations possible ?
5. Our body has 10 thousand-trillion cells. Not only this, it 100 thousand-trillion bacteria at any average point of time!
6. The simplest yeast cell is 5 microns across and has more parts than a Boeing 777.
7. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
8. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
9. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

~ TS ~

PS: Bio for a change ;-)