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281/ The Dodo was first discovered
in 1507 - 100 years later it was hunted to extinction.
282/ The fastest truck in
the world, the 376 mph rocket powered Shockwave burns 400
gallons of fuel every mile.
283/ The Hobby Eberly Telescope
(HET) can collect light 2 million times fainter than the human
eye can.
284/ Any 1 of a 1000 viruses
can cause the common cold.
285/ The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine
found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.
286/ Macau, China has 80,000
people per square mile. Greenland has 10 square miles per
person.
287/ The watch was invented
in Nuremberg in 1510.
288/ On average women say
7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
289/ In 1522 Ferdinand Magellan's
crew completed the first circumnavigation of the world.
290/ Health freaks beware!
If you jog for 1 hour each day for fifty years you will have
spent over two years jogging.
291/ Galileo first saw the
moons of Jupiter on 7th January 1610 - but they had been discovered
a few days earlier by an obscure German Astronomer, Simon
Marius.
292/ Europeans started drinking
tea from China in 1610 and they started drinking coffee in
1615.
293/ There are 1600 calories
in a pint of Hippopotamus milk.
294/ In 1661 the Bank of Stockholm
issued the worlds first banknote.
295/ Because of thermal expansion
the Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller in Summer.
296/ Benjamin Franklin began
his research into electricity in 1746.
297/ Isaac Newton published
his 'Principia' explaining the laws of gravity in 1687.
298/ The combined length of
the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles.
299/ Gabriel Fahrenheit invented
the mercury thermometer in 1714.
300/ 97.2% of the Earth's
water is salt water.
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