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401/ Lake Baikal in Siberia
holds 20% of the world's fresh water and is fed by 330 rivers.
402/ The sailfish, the swordfish
and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over
50mph.
403/ Flying Fish can leap
up to 6 metres above the water then glide for up to 300 metres.
404/ Giant tortoises of the
Galapagos Islands weigh up to 225 kilos and can live for over
150 years.
405/ One sixth of the world's
population, around 1 billion people, travel
by plane each year.
406/ On average, each year
40 commercial passenger planes crash.
407/ North of the equator
weather systems like hurricanes spin anti-clockwise and south
of the equator they spin clockwise.
408/ Mars moon, Phobus, is
spiralling downwards, and will eventually crash into Mars
in 100 million years time.
409/ Our Sun is 865,280 miles
across. The Earth is 7962 miles across.
410/ The cliffs on Uranus's
moon Miranda are 20,000 metres high.
411/ Two-Thirds of all stars
are double stars.
412/ Our Sun is unusual in
being a single star.
413/ Rubber bands last longer
when refrigerated.
414/ Peanuts are one of the
ingredients of dynamite.
415/ The National Anthem of
Greece has 158 verses.
416/ There are more chickens
than people in the world.
417/ Two-Thirds of the world's
eggplant (aubergine) is grown in New Jersey.
418/ Oysters can change from
one gender to another and back again depending on which is
best for mating.
419/ The longest one syllable
word in the English language is "screeched".
420/ "Dreamt" is
the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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