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| | Facts | - If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this planet would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In Johannesburg, the average car will be involved in an accident once every four years.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household lightbulbs to complete an orbit.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - On average, there is about three molecules of ozone for every 10 million air molecules.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Orville Wright, a pilot, was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.
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