That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time.Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun.85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.

The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year.There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually.In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.Every year 56,000,000 people attend major league baseball games.Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool.In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered very American League team.All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job in case their pants split.Dueling is legal is Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.The average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet. The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white.Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, 'They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.' On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.

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