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1021/ When customs x-ray scan
a lorry to check for contraband the dose emitted by a two
minute scan is just 40-100 micro-sieverts; approximately one
tenth of the dose received by a patient during a lung radioscopy.
1022/ The fruit flys dna sequence
is 180 million bases long; whilst a humans is three billion.
1023/ The average lightbulb
wastes 95 percent of the electricity it uses.
1024/ Saturn is ten times
further from the Earth then the Sun - about 1,430,000,000km.
1025/ By the time the average
person has reached the age of seventy they will have cumulatively
spent about four years suffering from colds and flu. With
the average person getting about 200 upper respiratory infections
in their lifetime.
1026/ Although the Berlin
Wall fell in November 1989, it wasn't until a year later that
the wall had been completely removed; apart from six sections
which have been kept in place as a permanent memorial to the
past.
1027/ To stock the Eden
Project Domes in Cornwall, England has taken over 85,000
tonnes of soil.
1028/ Traces of cocaine were
found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
1029/ The record for the deepest
cave dive is 300 metres (984 feet).
1030/ In 1949, the US Air
Force deliberately organised an experiment in which 7,800
cures of radioactive iodine were released into the environment
from the Hanford nuclear plant in the American North-West.
By comparison, only 15 cures of radioactive iodine were released
by the Three Mile Island accident.
1031/ Christmas Day is on
December the 25th because it coincided with the shortest day
of the year, the winter solstice some 2000 years ago. In AD
274, the Roman Emperor Aurelian declared the day - Natalis
Solis Invicti - the birthday of the invincible sun - and
within a century it was being referred to as Christmas Day.
1032/ These days the winter
solstice occurs around the 21st December.
1033/ In 1997, mathematician
Tom Friddell used Markov chain theory to find the most profitable
monopoly squares. The best properties turned out to be in
the top right hand quarter of the board, beginning at Marylebone
Station and continueing through to Trafalgar Square, Fleet
Street and The Strand.
1034/ One in every 25,000
people has a condition called Synaesthesia in which
senses are connected; so that they can taste sounds and music
can be seen in colours. One famous 'sufferer' of this condition
was Beethoven who saw musical notes in a range of different
colours.
1035/ Human ears can detect
sounds between frequencies of 20hz and 20,000hz.
1036/ Our brains consist of
about 100 trillion connections.
1037/ Star Wars: The Attack
of the Clones - Is the first mainstream Hollywood film to
be filmed entirely in digital format. It is estimated that
delivery of films via digital projectors could save hundreds
of millions of pounds over the laborious task of duplication
and distribution via celluloid.
1038/ About 500 million years
ago there was a sudden burst in the development of life on
Earth which has come to be known as the 'Cambrian Explosion'.
1039/ Panspermia Theory
is the theory that life on primordial Earth was 'seeded' by
microbes from outer space.
1040/ The very summit of Mount
Everest is about the size of a snooker table.
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