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401/ Lake Baikal in Siberia holds 20% of the world's fresh water and is fed by 330 rivers.

402/ The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.

403/ Flying Fish can leap up to 6 metres above the water then glide for up to 300 metres.

404/ Giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands weigh up to 225 kilos and can live for over 150 years.

405/ One sixth of the world's population, around 1 billion people, travel by plane each year.

406/ On average, each year 40 commercial passenger planes crash.

407/ North of the equator weather systems like hurricanes spin anti-clockwise and south of the equator they spin clockwise.

408/ Mars moon, Phobus, is spiralling downwards, and will eventually crash into Mars in 100 million years time.

409/ Our Sun is 865,280 miles across. The Earth is 7962 miles across.

410/ The cliffs on Uranus's moon Miranda are 20,000 metres high.

411/ Two-Thirds of all stars are double stars.

412/ Our Sun is unusual in being a single star.

413/ Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

414/ Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

415/ The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

416/ There are more chickens than people in the world.

417/ Two-Thirds of the world's eggplant (aubergine) is grown in New Jersey.

418/ Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.

419/ The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

420/ "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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