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1161/ The fluid that bathes the whole
outer surface of the brain and spinal cord is known as cerebrospinal fluid and
is produced constantly by humans at the rate of 0.2 millilitres per minute.
1162/ As a general rule in
the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively big the
eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of
the brain.
1163/
The basic idea of acupuncture
is to restore the equilibrium in the functional state of the body so that the
so called life force, 'Chi', is in perfect balance between the various organs.
The basic procedure involves inserting a needle 1 to 4 millimetres into any one
of 365 special points on the body. 1164/
There is a 20 per cent loss in brain weight by age ninety, and even by age seventy
there is a 5 per cent loss in brain weight. 1165/
The octopus
has one of the largest brains of all invertebrates, roughly equal in size to the
brain of a fish, and composed of some 170 million nerve cells - Compare this however
with the neuronal count of a human - 100 billion. 1166/
Place 100 coins heads up in a shoebox. Shake vigorously, and open the lid. There
is 1 chance in 2 raised to the hundredth power that all the coins will still be
heads up. 1167/ Ancient Egyptian
astronomers could predict the flood season of the Nile by noting when the
bright star Sirius rose. 1168/
In 1705, Edmund Halley used Newton's theory of gravity to determine that the comet
he observed in 1682 would next return to Earth's vicinity in about 1758. Halley
died before that date, in 1742, at the age of 85. But when the comet did return
as he had predicted, it was named after him. 1169/
When Mrs
Albert Caldwell boarded the Titanic, she asked a deckhand, "Is this ship
really nonsinkable?" "Yes, Lady", he replied. "God himself
could not sink this ship." 1170/
The species that humans belong to, Homo Sapiens, has only been around for about
200,000 out of the approximately 4.5 billion year lifespan of our planet. (More
here) 1171/ Someone born on
the 1st January 1970 would be 32 and a half years old in Earth years; 135.1 Mercurian
years, 17.3 Martian Years and 0.13 Plutonian years. (Click
Here to Find out your age on other planets) 1172/
Welsh Theoretical Physicist Miguel Alcubierre has produced a paper that shows
how a warpdrive (such as the one featured on Star Trek) could work, using the
principles of general relativity. (Click
Here to Read his paper, or here
to read a discussion of it.)
1173/
A human baby utters its first word about 18 months after it is born. By the time
it is two the baby has a vocabulary of about fifty words. By three the total has
jumped to about a thousand. At six the total is about 13,000 words, and by 18
the now adult will have a comprehension vocabulary of 60,000 words. (More)
1174/ According to linguists
roughly two-thirds of all conversations are taken up with social matters ie who
is doing what with whom, relationship problems and activities at work, school
or in the family ie In short, gossip. 1175/
The most popular selling fiction books by a long margin are romantic fiction books. 1176/
If you take a sentence of ten english words and rearrange them into every conceivable
pattern (grammatical or not) you will find there are 3,628,800 possible arrangements. 1177/
In an experiment by Guy Woodruff and David Premack at the University of Pennsylvania
in the early 1980s they demonstrated that chimpanzees can understand fractions. 1178/
In 1997 the US Department of Education released the Riley report (named after
the Secretary of Education) which found that 83 percent of high school students
who took algebra and geometry courses went on to college, more than double the
rate (36 per cent) of students who did not take these courses. Interestingly,
these statistics are only about actually taking the course. Grades were not measured,
simply taking the course led to the benefits. 1179/
A laser beam striking a sapphire crystal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA in September 1964 generated a note of 60 gigahertz. 1180/
The Australian Sea Wasp or Box
Jellyfish which is found off the coast of Queensland causes death within 3
minutes if medical aid is not administered. Click
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