Extremely Interesting Facts

Did you know between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars

___________ Disneyland opened in 1955

___________ MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles)

___________ the 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs)

___________ the hamburger was invented in 1900

___________ the hottest chile in the world is the habanero

___________ Australia is the only country that is also a continent

___________ Europe is the only continent without a desert

___________ due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead

___________ If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years

___________ hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)

___________ the moon is 27% the size of the Earth

___________ the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F)

___________ sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)

___________ cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds

___________ an astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)

___________ the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old

___________ there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person