The Internet—Did You Know:

• If the Internet were weighed, it would weigh about 2 ounces (50 grams). How does one measure the weight of the Internet? Physicist Russel Seitz measured the weight of multiple billions of electrons which make up the data that we send back and forth every day.

• China has a treatment camp for people who suffer from internet addiction.

• If the internet were measured in horsepower, it takes 50 million horsepower to run the internet today.

• Twenty-six smart objects are located near every human on earth.

Other Interesting Bits of Information:

• The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long. If your entire circulatory system—we’re talking veins, arteries and capillaries—were laid out flat, it would stretch for more than 60,000 miles. That’s long enough to go around the Earth almost two and a half times!

• There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres. Africa spans all four hemispheres and covers nearly 12 million square miles.

• Your eye can see a million different colors. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, humans can distinguish approximately 10 million colors. That’s thanks to the cone cells in your retina, the back part of your eye that senses light and sends signals to your brain. These alerts allow you to perceive different colors. Some people who have a rare condition called tetrachromacy have an extra eye cone that enables them to see hundreds of millions of colors.

• German chocolate cake was invented in Texas. The “German” part of German chocolate cake comes from a person’s name—and that person wasn’t even from Germany. Specifically, it’s named after Samuel German, who, in 1852, created the formula for a sweet baking chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company in Massachusetts, which subsequently (and confusingly!) named the product Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate. Fast-forward to June 13, 1957. The Dallas Morning Star published a recipe for a cake, invented and submitted by a reader identified as Mrs. George Clay, which used the chocolate.

   

  Thanks to Readers Digest for these fun facts.