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4161/ All totalled, the sunlight
that strikes the earth at any given moment weighs as much
as an ocean liner.
4162/ At room temperature, the
average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
4163/ Russia built over 10,000
miles of railroad between 1896 and 1900.
4164/ The billionth digit of
PI is 9.
4165/ The first product Motorola
started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At
that time the most well-known player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
4166/ The metal instrument used
in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.
4167/ The radio-active substance,
Americanum-241 is used in many smoke detectors.
4168/ The Siberian Larch accounts
for more than 20 per cent of all the worlds trees.
4169/ When glass breaks, the
cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
4170/ You are more likely to
lose your hearing than any of your other senses if you are
hit by lightning.
4171/ There are five trillion
trillion atoms in one pound of iron.
4172/ A large flawless emerald
is worth more tha a similarly large flawless diamond.
4173/ The shell of an egg constitutes
12% of its weight.
4174/ It was decreed by law in
the Roman Empire that all young maidens be fed rabbit meat
because it would make them more beautiful and more willing.
4175/ The Roman Emperor Commodos
collected all the dwarfs, cripples and freaks he could find
in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Collosseum,
where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with
meat cleavers.
4176/ It is estimated that at
any one time 0.7 per cent of the world's population are drunk.
4177/ The average four-year-old
child asks over 400 questions a day.
4178/ Mailing an entire building
has been illegal in the US since 1916 when a man mailed a
40,000 ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
4179/ French astronomer Adrien
Auzout once considered building a telescope that was 1,000
feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would
be so great he would see animals on the moon.
4180/ Hitler and Napoleon both
had only one testicle.
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