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◥ The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
◢ 太陽比地球大 330,330 倍。
◥ Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
◢ 太陽每年減輕三億六千萬噸。

◥ Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
◢ 金星是唯一順時鐘方向自轉的行星。

◥ Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
◢ 在 1979 到 1999 年之間, 冥王星的軌道進入海王星的軌道內, 成為距離太陽排名第八的行星。

◥ The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
◢ 地球的重量是 6.588 兆兆噸。

◥ Australia is the smallest, flattest and driest inhabited continent in the world.
◢ 澳洲是世界上最小最平又最乾的有人大陸。

◥ 28 percent of Africa is wilderness.
◢ 非洲有 28% 是荒漠。

◥ 38 percent of America is wilderness.
◢ 美洲有 38% 是荒漠。

◥ About one tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
◢ 地球表面約有一成一直被冰雪覆蓋著。

◥ The dead sea isn't really a sea. it's actually an inland lake.
◢ 死海其實不是海, 而是內陸湖。

◥ Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
◢ 墨西哥市每年下沉 10 吋 (約 25 公分)。

◥ The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
◢ 把瓶中信丟到墨西哥灣流裡, 移動的速度是每小時四哩 (約 6.4 公里)。

◥ Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
◢ 整個地球上每分鐘有六千次閃電。

◥ In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
◢ 颶風在 10 分鐘內放出的能量比全球的核武加起來還多。

◥ Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
◢ 內華達州的雷諾市在加州洛杉磯的西邊。

◥ A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
◢ 一粒葡萄乾掉進一杯新鮮的香檳酒中, 會在液面與杯底之間不斷浮浮沉沉。
◣ 小毛註: 據推測應該是因為氣泡的關係。

◥ By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
◢ 漸漸把腳抬起並且躺下來, 就不會陷入流沙裡 (誰說冷知識無用?)。

◥ Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
◢ 一邊嚼口香糖一邊剝洋蔥, 就不會流淚。

◥ Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is it? Ans. - Honey
◢ 什麼食物絕不會腐敗? 答案是: 蜂蜜。

◥ Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
◢ 橡皮筋放在冰箱裡壽命比較長。

◥ Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
◢ 驅蚊液並非真的驅蚊, 只是讓你隱形。 它能阻礙蚊子的感官使牠們無視於你的存在。

◥ Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
◢ 牙醫建議牙刷與馬桶間至少應保持 6 呎 (約 1.8 公尺) 以上的距離, 以避免被沖水時散佈到空氣中的粒子污染。

◥ No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
◢ 乾燥的正方形紙張不可能對折超過七次。

◥ Pearls melt in vinegar.
◢ 珍珠放在醋裡會溶解。

◥ A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
◢ 只有早晨或下午才看得見彩虹, 因為只有當太陽對地平線的視角在 40 度以下時才可能發生。

◥ A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
◢ 保齡球瓶只需傾斜 7.5 度就足以倒下。

◥ The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
◢ 洋芋片上偶爾會出現綠色的詭異部份, 其實那是葉綠素。

◥ The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
◢ 十億人同時跳躍的力量相當於五百噸黃色炸藥。

◥ The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
◢ 蛋殼的重量佔整顆蛋的 12%。
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