Some interesting world facts….

Did you know?

• the universe was formed ~14 billion years ago
• the earth was formed ~4½ billion years ago
• hominids evolved ~4½ million years ago
• homo sapiens emerged ~70,000 years ago through a series of glacial epochs (ice ages)
• there are currently ~6.2 billion people
• human population is growing by ~25 million / year
• ~50% of humans rely on rice as their main food
• over 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 3 months in 1994 in the largest act of genocide since World War II
• ~500,000 excess child Iraqi deaths have occurred since the Gulf War due to food-for-oil sanctions
• ~100,000 Iraqis have been killed since March 2003 (out of  24-25 million).
• ~6% of people on the planet are from the USA; this 6% own ~50% of global financial wealth
• Australians watch an average of 180 minutes of television a day — couples average 12 minutes of conversation a day)

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.”

Anne Frank, 1944