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301/ The oceans contain enough
salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500
feet.
302/ Monash University has
named a new species of dinosaur Qantassaurus after the Australian
airline Qantas!
303/ Travelling at the speed
of light it would take a spaceship just 1.2822 seconds to
reach the Moon.
304/ The speed of light, Warp
Factor 1 on Star Trek's Enterprise is a mind boggling 670,610,000
miles per hour.
305/ Each year more snow falls
in Australia than in the whole of the European Alps.
306/ The human brain is 2%
of the body's weight but uses a hungry 20% of its energy.
307/ Women on the pill are
30% more likely to suffer from gum disease.
308/ Western adults, on average,
consume 10 litres of alcohol a year.
309/ If more than 23 people
gather in a room there is a better than 1 in 2 chance that
at least two of them will share the same birthday.
310/ The interstellar gas
cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion litres
of alcohol.
311/ Roy Sullivan of Virginia,
USA, was struck by lightning seven times during his lifetime.
Later he committed suicide.
312/ Alcohol lowers the level
of the sex hormone testosterone in men but increases it in
women.
313/ Polar Bears can run at
25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
314/ Ernest Rutherford discovered
that the atom had a nucleus in 1911.
315/ The silkworm moth has
eleven brains.
316/ There are over 25 million
bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.
317/ 70% of the molecular
structure in a tree is also human.
318/ 60-65 million years ago
dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor - the Mesonycid.
319/ In Winter the Antarctic
Ice covers 10% of our planet.
320/ Parts of the Atacama
Desert in Northern Chile have gone without rain for 400 years.
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