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the
name 'millipede' actually means 'thousand feet'; millipedes only have 400
feet?
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the
largest millipede is as long as a ruler while the smallest is only 2mm
long?
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molecules
in the air have a speed of 1800km/h even when you fell that the air is
'still'?
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as
you climb a mountain, the temperature drops 1 degree every 150 m?
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although
Everest is the highest mountain at 8863m, Mauna Kea in Hawaii has a height
of more than 10,000m but most of it is below sea-level?
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a
light wave can travel around the world 7 times in one second?
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Newton
was the master of the Royal Mint which is why his portrait was on
the back of the last English 1-pound note?
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after
1066, all rich and educated learnt at least 3 languages: English, Latin
and French?
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in
ancient Greek theatres the 'orchestra' was the area in front of the stage
where the chorus sang?
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there
may be as few as 500 pandas and 1000 tigers left in the world?
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some
parrots can live for up to 120 years?
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Picasso
learned to draw before he could speak?
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the
earliest surviving printed book was printed in China in 868 AD?
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the
first regular public broadcasting began in 1920?
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there
are 97 stops on the world's longest railway, the Trans-Siberian Railway?
The journey from Moscow to Nakhodka takes over 8 days!
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the
heaviest load ever moved on rails was a church in Most, Czechoslovakia?
It took 4 weeks to move it over a distance of only 750 m in 1975!
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for
every one tonne of paper recycled, only 2 trees are saved?
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Spartacus
and another 6000 slaves were crucified for trying to make a revolt in ancient
Rome?
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the
largest living tree is a giant sequoia which is 83.8 metres tall and 31.4
metres wide? It is over 2,200 years old!
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during
the Middle Ages, one fifth of babies died before their fifth birthdays
and only a few managed to live for 55 years?
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