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181/ Mount Rainier erupts
around every 500 years.
182/ There are over 100 billion
stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
183/ Scientists have discovered
over 20 planets outside our solar system.
184/ Organisms can live in
temperatures up to 133 centigrade.
185/ There is clear geological
evidence that there has been water on Mars.
186/ NASA missions in 2003
and 2005 will collect rocks from Mars.
187/ Living organisms on Earth
can thrive as deep as 2 miles down.
188/ Jupiter's moon, Europa,
is completely covered in ice.
189/ We can produce laser
light a million times brighter than sunshine.
190/ The fastest spacecraft
can go 40,000 mph.
191/ Babies conceived by ivf
are more likely to die during infancy.
192/ The surface of Mars is
the same area as the Earth's continents.
193/ In the US the average
vehicle is 5.6 years old.
194/ On May 3rd 1999 an outbreak
of 76 tornadoes struck Oklahoma and Kansas with wind speeds
of up to 318 mph.
195/ Jumbo Jets have carried
the equivalent of 1.6 million passengers to the Moon and back.
196/ Volcanoes on Io eject
material at speeds of 2000 mph.
197/ The Sun takes about 220
million years to make one revolution of the Milky Way.
198/ A human heart beats 100,000
times a day.
199/ Every heartbeat pumps
1/15th of a pint of blood.
200/ The first bicycle was
manufactured in 1817.
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