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Stat of the week

"The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels."
–Newcastle University Blogging Service

THIS WEEK

October 25, 2026

PREVIOUS WEEKS

October 18, 2026

"You lose about 4kg of skin cells each year."
    - National Geographic Kids

October 11, 2026

"A three-toed sloth can turn its head 270 degrees."
    - Perot Museum of Nature and Science

October 4, 2026

"Lava from a volcano can reach 1,250 degrees celsius."
    - National Geographic Kids

September 27, 2026

"Grains make up 45% of the world's diet."
    - ONE.org

September 20, 2026

"4.4 billion birds migrate from Canada to the US each fall."
    - Chirp Nature Center

September 13, 2026

"The human nose can detect around 10,000 different smells."
    - science-sparks

September 6, 2026

"There are around 100 more bones in a child's developing body than an adult."
    - The Philadelphia Tribune

August 30, 2026

"A hummingbird's heart beats up to 1,200 times per minute."
    - EBSCO

August 23, 2026

"1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun."
    - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

August 16, 2026

"There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoon of water as there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean."
    - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

August 9, 2026

"Wearing headphones for an hour can increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times."
    - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

August 2, 2026

"The brain has around 100 million nerve cells."
    - science-sparks

July 26, 2026

"99.9% of the DNA in each human is the same."
    - science-sparks

July 19, 2026

"Each season on Uranus lasts 21 years."
    - dreambox

June 12, 2026

"The average human body contains 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells."
    - ZME Science

July 5, 2026

"To fly, a human would need a 20ft wingspan."
    - Live Science

June 28, 2026

"A sneeze can travel at speeds of up to 100mph."
    - EBSCO

June 21, 2026

"The oldest river in the world, the Finke River, formed 300-400 million years ago."
    - Live Science

June 14, 2026

"In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the globe."
    - ZME Science

June 7, 2026

"The average person blinks almost 20,000 times per day."
    - Cleveland Clinic

May 31, 2026

"There are more ways to arrange a 52 card deck than there are atoms on Earth."

May 24, 2026

"As of 2025, humans have been continuously living aboard the International Space Station for 25 years."
    - NASA

May 17, 2026

"As of 2020, over 30% of the world's Christian population lives in Africa."
    - pewresearch.org

May 10, 2026

"Over 99.5% of the mass in our solar system is in the sun."
    - IFLScience

May 3, 2026

"Over 99.9% of all species that have ever existed on Earth are extinct."
    - PBS

April 26, 2026

"Around 20% of Native American descendants live in Alaska"
    - cencus.gov

April 19, 2026

"Around 90% of all emails are spam."
    - CNET

April 12, 2026

"There's about a 4% chance that your lost remote is in the fridge or freezer."
    - Reader's Digest

April 5, 2026

"Close to half of Americans polled in a YouGov survey believe people should treat AI chatbots with respect."
    - Reader's Digest

March 29, 2026

"You have a 50% chance of sharing a birthday with a friend"
    - BBC Science Focus Magazine

March 22, 2026

"Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal."
    - CMU School of Computer Science

"Battery costs have gone down 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality."
    - Our World in Data

March 15, 2026

March 8, 2026

"In 2024, China made up 87% of US-imported Christmas decorations."
    - United States Census Bureau

March 1, 2026

"90% of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere."
    - TODAY.com

February 22, 2026

"Only 45% of the London Underground public transportation system is actually underground."
    - Concordia University of Texas

February 15, 2026

"In the space station, more than 3 million lines of software code on the ground support more than 1.5 million lines of flight software code."
    - NASA

February 8, 2026

"A watermelon is 90% water."​
    - TODAY.com

February 1, 2026

"27% of Americans in a conducted survey believe that a gigabyte is an insect."
    - MACOOR Research

January 25, 2026

"Wind turbines kill between 10-100 thousand birds each year in the UK––painting one blade black can reduce these deaths by 70%."​
    - BBC Science Focus Magazine

January 18, 2026

"At standstill, you are actually traveling at 2.7 million mph through the universe."
    - Perot Museum of Nature and Science

January 11, 2026

"Every day, a steady blizzard of marine snow rains about 2 million tons of carbon to the seafloor."​
    - College of LSA

January 4, 2026

"The average brain is believed to generate up to 50,000 thoughts per day."
    - San Diego Brain Injury Foundation

December 28, 2025

"The average human is about 56% bacteria––that's over half of your composition."​
    - BBC Science Focus Magazine

December 21, 2025

"A single bolt of lightning could contain enough energy to cook 20,000 pieces of toast."
    - Perot Museum of Nature and Science

December 14, 2025

"The hippocampus, the brain's memory center, is significantly larger in London cab drivers."​
    - San Diego Brain Injury Foundation

December 7, 2025

"A cloud weighs around a million tons."
    - BBC Science Focus Magazine

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