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Facts

³ A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons.

³ Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossils.

³ Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve stainless steel.

³ A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle.

³ Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
³ In an entire lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world.

³ Bigger forks lead you to eat less.

³ The longest-living insect is the termite.

³ Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

³ At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
-S.Varsha Vahini

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DID YOU KNOW?

INTERESTING FACTS! All living things on the planet

⮚ Say no to bags when you go shopping! A plastic bag which is used for an average of 10
minutes will remain in the environment for 1000 years before it decomposes. It takes 75,000
trees to print a Sunday Edition of newspaper.

⮚ Germany has the best recycling rate in the world followed by Austria, South Korea, and Wales.

⮚ Tropical forests cover less than 7 percent of Earth's landmass but are home to about 50
percent of all living things on the planet

⮚ The five warmest years on record have occurred in the last decade!

⮚ The energy saved from one recycled Aluminium Can, will operate a television for three hours!

⮚ Each year 1 Million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as a
result of eating or being strangled in plastic.

AG SRINITHI

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