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There is approximately 68% of dark energy, 27% of dark matter and 5% of normal matter in our universe.
The gravity on Earth is 9.8m/s². On the moon it is 1.62 m/s² On mercury it is 3.7 m/s². On Venus it is 8.87 m/s². On Mars it is 3.711 m/s². On Jupiter it is 24.79 m/s². On Saturn it is 10.44 m/s². On Uranus it is 8.69 m/s². On Neptune it is 11.15 m/s².
Corvids have the largest brain to body mass ratio of any birds. The brain of an American Crow is on average 2.3% of its body mass, with the common raven at a close 1.3%. For humans the brain is 1.5% of body mass on average, while for domestic chickens the figure is 0.1%.
(Crow by Boria Sax pg. 19)
Regular pasteurization causes nutritional loss in milk – calcium and phosphorus drop by 5%, vitamins B1 and B12 drop by 10%, and vitamin C by 20%.
(The Doctor by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki pg. 10)
Benford’s Law says that when analyzing real life sets of numerical data (populations, areas, numbers appearing in newspapers, etc.) the leading digit is likely to be small. 1 is the leading digit in 30.1% of cases, 2 in 17.6% of cases, 3 in 12.5%, 4(9.7%), 5(7.9%), 6(6.7%), 7(5.8%), 8(5.1%), and 9 only appearing as the leading digit in 4.6% of cases.
(Adam Spencer’s Big Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer pg. 2)
The determination of the cellular scaling rules that apply to primate brains (Herculano-Houzel et al., 2007) enabled us to predict the cellular composition of the human brain. According to these rules, a generic primate brain of 1.5 kg should have 93 billion neurons, and 112 billion non-neuronal cells: glial cells, thus, should constitute at most half of all brain cells. This generic primate brain should have a cerebral cortex of about 1.4 kg, containing 25 billion neurons, and a cerebellum weighing 120 g, with 70 billion neurons.