Numbers

Do you know how fast a crack in glass can move or what percentage of world’s shipping traffic using the Suez Canal?

Numbers are magic. They are everywhere in our daily lives or at work in budgets.

Here are some numbers you probably never have thought about – or maybe you have?

4%
The percentage of lost TB remote controls that turn up in the fridge

4.2 million
The number of times/year the avarage human blinks

10%
The percentage of world’s shipping traffic using the Suez Canal

4800km/h The speed at which cracks in glass can move

5kg The avarage mass lost by a Formula One driver during a race (I really need to start driving F1, at least two races a week)

25%
The percentage of the world’ unspoiled forests that grow in Russia

59
The number of times Walt Disney was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscars)

95%
The hinting successcrste of dragonflies

21years
the length of summer on Uranus

1300
The number of invention patented by Thomas Edison

1500
The litres if fuel used by a jumbo jet taking off

6 months
The lenght of time it takes to build a Rolls-Royce

10%
The percentage of the world’s salt thst is used to de-ice American roads

4
The number ofcweeks it can take for a sloth to digest food

90%
The aporoximate percentage of sgark attack victins that are male

1962
The year in which the US state if Maryland declared jousting its official sport

2.5 million
The number of rivets in the Eiffel Tower?

6 dats
The age at which Mary# Stuart became Queen of Scotland

690
The numbers of days it would take to circumnavigate the world, walking 12 hours a day