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541/ People in the United States eat about 800,000,000 pounds of peanut butter each year.

542/ A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.

543/ An elephant herd can move fifty miles in a day.

544/ Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.

545/ Astronauts get two or three inches taller out in space.

546/ Buffalo are a red colour when they are born. The colour changes to brown about two months after they are born.

547/ Less than 30% of the coral reefs in Japan, Philippines and Costa Rica are in good or excellent condition.

548/ Oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface - 360 million square km.

549/ The average depth of the ocean is 4km.

550/ Moonstones are so named because they have a soft, luminous glow much like moonlight.

551/ More than 100 years ago, the felt hat makers of England used mercury to stabilize wool. Most of them eventually became poisoned by the fumes, as demonstrated by the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Breathing mercury's fumes over a long period of time will cause erethism, a disorder characterized by nervousness, irritability, and strange personality changes.

552/ The Salvation Army's motto is 'Blood and Fire'.

553/ The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the centre of their noses to make them appear longer.

554/ The chief oil in the oil paints used by artists is linseed oil, made from the seed of the flax plant.

555/ The colour black absorbs heat. White reflects it.

556/ The sound heard by a listener when holding a seashell to his ear does NOT come from the shell itself. It is the echo of the blood pulsing in the listeners own ear.

557/ The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be called 'The Thinker' was not meant to be a portrait of a man in thought. It is a portrait of the poet Dante.

558/ The country with the most post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.

559/ The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimetre or about 0.04 of an inch.

560/ The U.S Automobile Association was formed in 1905 for the purpose of providing 'scouts' who could warn motorists of hidden police traps.

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