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41/ Without its lining of
mucus your stomach would digest itself.
42/ Humans have 46 chromosomes,
peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
43/ There are 60,000 miles
of blood vessels in the human body.
44/ An individual blood cell
takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
45/ Utopia ia a large, smooth
lying area of Mars.
46/ On the day that Alexander
Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was
shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
47/ The low frequency call
of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living
creature.
48/ The call of the humpback
whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles
away.
49/ A quarter of the world's
plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
50/ Each person sheds 40lbs
of skin in his or her lifetime.
51/ At 15 inches the eyes
of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
52/ The largest galexies contain
a million, million stars.
53/ The Universe contains
over 100 billion galaxies.
54/ Wounds infested with maggots
heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
55/ More germs are transferred
shaking hands than kissing.
56/ The longest glacier in
Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40
miles wide.
57/ The fastest speed a falling
raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
58/ A healthy person has 6,000
million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
59/ A salmon-rich, low cholesterol
diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
60/ Inbreeding causes 3 out
of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
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