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361/ An eight-million year
old alligator fossil found in the Amazon was 12 metres long
and weighed 18 tonnes.
362/ Certain Chinese and American
alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads
in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
363/ There are an estimated
five million, trillion, trillion bacteria on Earth.
364/ Greg Rusedski's tennis
serve clocks in at an impressive 149mph.
365/ There are more cars than
people in Los Angeles, California.
366/ Mosquitoes prefer to
bite people who have just eaten a banana.
367/ The wingspan of the Indonesian
fruitbat equals the height of filmstar Sylvester Stallone.
368/ The first colour photograph
of an eclipse of the Sun was taken in 1937 using a 14 inch
telescope.
369/ Cheetahs, the fastest
land mammals, are capable of speeds up to 65 miles per hour.
370/ On average there are
a million Earth tremors each year.
371/ In 1902 Mount Pelee,
Martinique, erupted and killed 30,000 people in minutes. The
only survivors were prisoners locked in a dungeon.
372/ The base of the baobab
tree can store up to 25,000 gallons of water.
373/ The oldest oak tree in
the US is 1,500 years old and its branches span over 160 feet.
374/ The saddleback tortoise
has evolved a long neck and an arched shell in order to reach
leaves a staggering 5 feet above the ground.
375/ The first transistor
was the size of a golfball. Today millions can be packed into
the size of a postage stamp.
376/ An Ostrich's eye is bigger
than its brain.
377/ Grand Prix racing motorbikes
can accelerate from 0-60mph in 2.7 seconds.
378/ A digital watch has an
average of over half a million transistors in its microchips.
379/ In 1900 the average western
life span was just 47 years.
380/ 50% of all Americans
are officially overweight.
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