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121/ Space debris travels
through space at over 18,000 mph.
122/ The International Space
Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football
field.
123/ Astronauts brought back
about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not
been analysed.
124/ Tuberculosis is the biggest
global killer of women.
125/ One third of Asian women
are infected with TB.
126/ Each domestic cpw emits
about 105 pounds of methane a year.
127/ Hummingbirds consume
half of their body weight in food every day.
128/ The larva of the polyphemus
moth consumes 86,000 times its birth weight in its first 56
days.
129/ Blood sucking hookworms
inhabit 700 million piople worldwide.
130/ Some species of bamboo
grow at a rate of 3ft per day.
131/ A total of 148 tornadoes
swept the south and mid-west of the US in April 1974.
132/ A lunar eclipse of 1
hour 47 minutes occured on the 16th July 2000.
133/ Saturn would float if
you could find an ocean big enough.
134/ A pinhead-sized piece
of a neutron star weighs 1 million tonnes.
135/ A neutron star is 15
miles across and weighs more than the Sun.
136/ The highest recorded
train speed is 320.2 mph by the TGV train in France.
137/ The highest speed ever
achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.
138/ The research spacecraft
Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun.
139/ 65 million years ago
the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power
of 10 million H-Bombs.
140/ The temperature at the
centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5500 degrees Celsius.
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