There are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building. The world’s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. The world’s largest palace is the Imperial palace in the heart of Peking, There are more stars than all […]
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The largest movie theater in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, opened in December, 1932. It originally had 5,945 seats. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles. The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a
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The 26 letters of our alphabet can make 403,290,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations. The air we breathe is comprised of 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen and 0.5% argon. The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
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Cows are usually found lying down before it starts to rain. Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out. Dark roasted coffees actually have LESS
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            South Africa has the oldest meteor scar in the world, just across the Vaal River near Parys, called the Vredefort Dome. The meteor plummeted to Earth nearly two billion years ago       The rocks around Barberton in Mpumalanga are some of the most ancient in the world
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                  Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.       In 1959, the Soviet space probe “Luna Two” became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.       Olympus Mons
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                                  In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.                         In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.                         The
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