Mile Facts

The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).

If you could uncoil all the DNA in your body and stretch it end-to-end, it would reach approximately 10 billion miles—enough to make a round trip from Earth to Pluto.

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!