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321/ Argentia in Newfoundland
has an average 206 days of fog each year.
322/ Mount Waiale'ale in Hawaii
is the rainiest place in the world and has 335 rainy days
a year.
323/ Ireland has the highest
calorie consumption in the world at 3,952 calories per person
per year.
324/ The water drops in fog
are so microscopically small that it needs over 7 billion
of them to fill a teaspoon.
325/ 68% of all UFO sightings
are by men.
326/ The sperm count of the
Finnish male is double the world average, but he will father
only 1.8 children.
327/ 15% of the world's fresh
water flows doen the Amazon.
328/ A cat has 32 sets of
muscles in each ear.
329/ In the USA there are
813 TV sets per 1000 people - 200 million sets in all. In
Mali there is 1 set per 2,500 people.
330/ Over two-thirds of people
admit to urinating while in public swimming pools.
331/ More people die of heart
attacks on Monday than on any other day of the week.
332/ Beetles are the strongest
animals on Earth relative to their size. A rhinoceros beetle
can carry 850 times its own weight in its back.
333/ The Albatross has a wing
span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple
of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of
miles each flight.
334/ The World Wide Web (www)
was developed by Englishman Tim Berners Lee and his colleagues
in Switzerland.
335/ The first man made object
to leave and orbit the Earth was Sputnik 1 which was launched
by the USSR in 1957.
336/ In 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space.
337/ In 1842 Ada Byron and
Charles Babbage developed a computer language and designed
a programmable computer using punch cards...the first truly
programmable computer, the Colossus, was built in the UK in
1943 to help break the German Enigma code.
338/ In 1876 Alexander Graham
Bell invented the telephone.
339/ In 1885 Karl Benz built
the first car powered by an internal combustion engine.
340/ Scotsman John Baird invented
the Baird televisor (now the television) in 1925.
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