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Fascinating Facts & Figures - 7

This is page 7 of fascinating facts and fiqures.

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No word in the English language rhymes with month.

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Originally tomatoes were grown only for decoration and not for eating as it was thought that they were poisonous.

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The planet Venus spins from east to west. Earth and the other planets spin from west to east.

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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is 88,000 miles (142,000km) wide.

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The African elephant is the heaviest land mammal. It can weigh up to 12 tons.

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The blood of octopus is blue.

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Technically, the bumble bee is to heavy to fly.

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A large blue whale eats three tons of food every day.

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You use 54 muscles every time that you take a step forward.

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A flea can jump 200 time its own height.

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An English classics scholar, trying to impress his tour party colleagues on holiday in Athens, offered to converse in Greek with the local ferry officers at the docks to enquire about departure times. The locals, after recovering from fits of laughter, then revealed to the rest of the group, in perfect English, the scholar's question: When do the galleys sail for the Isle of Aegina, O sailors?'

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