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381/ By 2150 there will be
10 billion humans. In 2000 there were 6 billion.
382/ America produces 215
million tons of solid garbage every year.
383/ At present even the most
powerful PCs cannot process as many instructions as the .1gm
of a goldfish brain.
384/ A typical PC would have
to be a million times more powerful to perform like the human
brain.
385/ The first photographic
negative allowing multiple prints was developed by British
inventor William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830's.
386/ In 1801 American inventor
James Finley built the first modern suspension bridge over
a river near Uniontown, PA.
387/ The first internal combustion
piston engine was built by Frenchman Etienne Lenoir in 1860.
387/ After many aborted attempts,
the first submarine telegraph cable between Europe and America
was successfully laid in 1866.
388/ In 1894 Italian physicist
Guglielmo Marconi began his work on transmitting radio waves
over long distances.
389/ All the hydrogen atoms
in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big
Bang.
390/ When completed in 2009
the Three Gorges dam across the Yangtze River in China will
be 60 storeys high and 1.4 miles long.
391/ 'Windows 2000' contained
29 million lines of code.
392/ The Large Hadron Collider
or LHC outside of Geneva in Switzerland will be the largest
science experiment ever. When it opens for business in 2005
it will use a circular tunnel 17 miles in diameter.
393/ At 1,483 feet tall the
twin Petronas tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the tallest
building in the world.
394/ A single rye plant can
spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.
395/ If you are bitten by
a mosquito, it's usually a female sucking blood from her victim
to get nutrients for making her eggs.
396/ The largest group of
insects are the beetles with over 400,000 different species.
397/ Dragonflies have the
largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect... each eye
is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
398/ Mayflies live for a year
or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few
hours.
399/ By swallowing water,
the Pufferfish becomes too big for other fish to swallow.
400/ Although rainforests
only cover 7% of the Earth's surface, at least 40% of all
animal and plant species live in them.
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