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In the Fact File section we bring you a new collection
of quick facts each week. (Click on the links below for more facts)
4441 - The moon is one million times dryer than the Gobi desert.
4442 - Fred Finn
is the world's most travelled airline passenger. By the year 2000,
he had flown a total distance of 11,960,000 miles and had crossed
the Atlantic 714 times on the Concorde.
4443 - A hurricane
can last for over 2 weeks as it travels up the ocean and across
a coastline.
4444 –
The Winter Olympics have never been hosted in a country in the Southern
Hemisphere.
4445 –
Nails grow about 2 cm every year. Fingernails grow about 4 times
as fast as toenails.
4446 –
Hair is the fastest growing part of the human body and on average,
grows at a rate of 12 cm per year.
4447 –
Like mammals, birds and other animals hatched from eggs also have
belly buttons. Their belly buttons are connected to a yolk sack
before they hatch whereas in mammals, navels are connected to the
placenta.
4448 –
Astronomer Ole Romer (1644 - 1710) was the first person to measure
the speed of light and to determine that it travels at a finite
speed. The values he came up with are slower than what’s accepted
today.
4449 – Being
in love produces events in the brain that are similar to mental
illness.
4450 – Smell
is a huge factor in human attraction. We tend to be attracted to
people who look and smell like our parents.
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