Fascinating Water Facts:
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Fascinating Water Fact
A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
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Fascinating Water Fact
75% of the human brain is water and 75% of a living tree is water.
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Fascinating Water Fact
Water covers about 70 and 75% of the earth’s surface.
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Fascinating Water Fact
The human body contains between 60% and 70% water.
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Fascinating Water Fact
Water is the second most common molecule in the universe. The most common is hydrogen gas, H2.
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Fascinating Water Fact
A five-minute shower uses 200 litres of water.
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Fascinating Water Fact
We each drink around 1000 litres of water a year.
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Fascinating Water Fact
Water expands when it freezes, unlike almost every other liquid.
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Fascinating Water Fact
A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.
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Fascinating Water Fact
There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. The water from your tap could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank.
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Fascinating Water Fact
Each person in Australia uses an average of 100,000 litres of water per year, which works out to 274 litres per day.
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Fascinating Water Fact
In a 100 year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
