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101/ The fastest speed that
humans have managed in our current space craft is 40,000 miles
per hour.
102/ Our current manned rockets
would take 70,000 years to reach even the nearest stars.
103/ In August 1992 Hurricane
Andrew caused $26 billion dollars of damage and destroyed
60,000 homes.
104/ Lightning can reach thirty
miles long and is less than an inch thick.
105/ A lightning bolt is hotter
than the surface of the Sun.
106/ Scientists have discovered
that dogs can smell the presence of autism in children.
107/ 'Seizure Alert' dogs
can alert their owners up to an hour before the onset of an
epileptic seizure.
108/ Diabetes strikes 1 in
16 people.
109/ At any one time there
are almost two thousand individual lightning storms on Earth.
110/ Kangaroo males have a
bifurcated penis.
111/ Lightning moves at a
third the speed of light.
112/ On average, airliners
will get struck by lightning once every year.
113/ At the heart of the Sun
600 million tonnes of hydrogen are converted into helium every
second.
114/ The Moon is 400 times
closer to the Earth than the Sun and exactly 400 times smaller.
115/ The most dangerous form
of transport is the bicycle.
116/ The safest form of transport
is the lift.
117/ Dolphins use echo-location
to catch fish in total darkness.
118/ 100 calories will propel
a bicycle 3 miles and drive a car 280 feet.
119/ Since the first fatal
car crash, about a 100 years ago, 25 million people have died
in car accidents.
120/ There are roughly 10,000
man-made objects larger than the size of a softball orbiting
the Earth.
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