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Voyager 1
Did you know that...
The furthest spacecraft which is still in touch with Earth is NASA’s Voyager 1.
In 2006, Voyager 1 was more than 14,700 million km away (98 times the Earth’s distance from the Sun).
A signal from the spacecraft takes more than 13 ½ hours to reach us.
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Your Feet
The foot is a very complex system consisting of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles. One quarter of all the bones in the human body are located in the feet. Because feet are the foundation of the body, when these bones are out of alignment, it can affect many other human mechanisms.
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Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
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A person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars.
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The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.
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Footprints and tyre tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.
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The sun is over 300,000 times larger than earth.
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The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
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Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'.
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Hummingbirds are so agile and have such good control that they can fly backwards.
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Infants blink only once or twice a minute while adults average around 10.
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The worlds largest desert is the Sahara, it covers about one third of Africa!
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Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
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The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
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The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
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Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
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Tthere are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
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Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin.
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The tenth egg laid is bigger than the nine eggs laid before it.
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More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
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Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pushing down on them.
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Astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
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Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.
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The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal.
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Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.
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Velcro was invented 50 years ago
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Confusing Names
RICE PAPER is not made from rice but wood pulp.
BUTTERMILK does not contain Butter.
SODA WATER contains no Soda.
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Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
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The moon appears to have more craters and scars than Earth because it has a lot less natural activity going on, the Earth is constantly reforming its surface through earthquakes, erosion, rain, wind and plants growing on the surface, while the moon has very little weather to alter its appearance.
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Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
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The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled in 225 different ways;
1. Leeuwaarden
2. Leewaarden
3. Leewarden
4. Leuwarden
5. leuwaardenn
6. Leuuwarrden
etc., etc.
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The Famous Scientist, Albert Einstein, failed the entrance examination to study Engineering in a Zurich University - SEE: STORY
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Did you know that the energy from just 20 days of sunshine is the equivalent to all the energy stored in Earth's reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas? Around one-third of this light is reflected back into space.
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SNAKES are deaf. They hear by picking up vibrations with their tongues.
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The BLUE WHALE is the largest animal ever known to inhabit the earth.
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A BULL is not irritated by the colour RED because it is colour blind. It s the movement of a moving cape that causes anger.
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An OWL has no movement in it's eyes, but it can revolve it's head in almost a complete circle.
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Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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Ants do not sleep, althought my Aunt does !!
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The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. The staples (or stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimetres long.
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Natural gas doesn't have an odour, strong smells are added to it by humans so it can be detected when there are leaks.
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The earth isn't perfectly round, it is slightly flattened at the north and south poles.
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Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
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The first man-made object sent into outter space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named ' Sputnik' was launched. The Astronaut's name was Yuri Gagarin.
In Russian : Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin.
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The Earth is between 4 and 5 billion years old, i.e., 5,000,000 years old.
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Children laugh about 200 times each day; Adults laugh only 15 to 18 times.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
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In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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There are nearly 10,000 different varieties of apples.
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Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads!
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There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick".
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Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.
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The computer mouse was invented 30 years ago.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Hawaii is moving towards Japan at the speed of 10 cm a year. This is because they are on different tectonic plates.
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Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, they won't help in fighting off a virus.
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Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
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If an analog clock is broken, it shows the correct time twice a day.
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Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
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Did you know?...Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
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Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.
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Kangaroos and Emus can't walk backwards.
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Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.
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Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.
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A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 metres in length.
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Coca Cola sell more than 280 million bottles every day.
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
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The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented 80 years ago.
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The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
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It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
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Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees celcius
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
• Spades - King David
• Hearts - Charlemagne
• Clubs - Alexander the Great
• Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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Chocolate is a vegetable; Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So chocolate bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
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* E * is the most used letter in the English Language.
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U.S. President Lincoln was elected in 1860.
Lincoln's Secretary name was Kennedy.
President Kennedy was elected in 1960.
Kennedy's Secretary's name was Lincoln.
Both Secretaries advised these Presidents not to travel to the places where they were asssinated.
The successor to both of these Presidents was named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, born 1808. Lyndon Johnson was born in 1909.
The assassins were named Booth and Oswald. Both of these were killed before they could be brought to trial.
Lincoln and Kennedy were carried to their graves n the same caisson.
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