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461/ The coldest temperature
ever recorded at minus 126.9°F was in Antarctica at Vostok
in 1960.
462/ Dutchman Antony van Leeuwenhoek
invented the microscope in 1674.
463/ Spider web filaments
were used in gun sights as the 'cross hairs' until the early
1960's.
464/ 88% of all humans are
right handed.
465/ Bill Gates is left handed.
466/ The Millenium Dome in
London can be seen from space. The shell is 1km in circumference.
467/ An elephant's brain weighs
about five times more than a human brain but it's body weighs
100 times more than ours.
468/ Every night each human
sheds approximately 3 grams of skin particles.
469/ The sting of a Box Jelly
can kill a human within three minutes.
470/ In 1870 in Massachusetts
Bay an Arctic Lion's Mane jelly was found with tentacles of
36.5 metres in length.
471/ A Platypus is one of
two mammals that lays eggs and nurses it's young on milk -
the other is an echidna.
472/ The International Space
Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.
473/ Up to 15,000 dust mites
can live and thrive in just one gram of dust.
474/ The temperature on the
surface of Mercury exceeds 400 degrees C during the day, and,
at night, plummets to minus 200 degreees centigrade.
475/ Mosquitoes have been
found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
476/ One person in every 2
billion lives to be 116 or older.
477/ Tristan de Cunha, an
island in the South Atlantic Ocean is populated by 296 people
and most of them suffer from asthma.
478/ Bats always turn left
when leaving a cave.
479/ The Moon orbits the Earth
at an average distance of 236,000 miles.
480/ The largest
known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called
the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive
as our Sun, and 10,000,000 times as bright!
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