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181/ Mount Rainier erupts around every 500 years.

182/ There are over 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

183/ Scientists have discovered over 20 planets outside our solar system.

184/ Organisms can live in temperatures up to 133 centigrade.

185/ There is clear geological evidence that there has been water on Mars.

186/ NASA missions in 2003 and 2005 will collect rocks from Mars.

187/ Living organisms on Earth can thrive as deep as 2 miles down.

188/ Jupiter's moon, Europa, is completely covered in ice.

189/ We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine.

190/ The fastest spacecraft can go 40,000 mph.

191/ Babies conceived by ivf are more likely to die during infancy.

192/ The surface of Mars is the same area as the Earth's continents.

193/ In the US the average vehicle is 5.6 years old.

194/ On May 3rd 1999 an outbreak of 76 tornadoes struck Oklahoma and Kansas with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.

195/ Jumbo Jets have carried the equivalent of 1.6 million passengers to the Moon and back.

196/ Volcanoes on Io eject material at speeds of 2000 mph.

197/ The Sun takes about 220 million years to make one revolution of the Milky Way.

198/ A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.

199/ Every heartbeat pumps 1/15th of a pint of blood.

200/ The first bicycle was manufactured in 1817.

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