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£200,000 - Value of gold you would receive if the 17 million tonnes of it that sits in the world's oceans was extracted and split evenly between everyone in the world.

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Don't:
Go grocery shopping on an empty stomach.

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2 billion - Number of heartbeats in an average mammalian lifetime regardless of size - a shrew burns through them in 2 years, a whale takes a century, but the total is remarkably constant across species, as if each animal is allocated a fixed number of beats at birth.

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Andy Burnham will be the worst mistake Labour has made, yet. At least Starmer was benign, and super on the global stage. Andy and his band of lefty loonies will end up taxing the very life out of hard working Brits to support the growing tribe of entitled do-nothings...

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Interesting how the small things trump the big ones e.g. DNA vs Protein. It looks like in the superpower contest, when the chips are down, whoever makes the best microchip wins the race in the age of AI.

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2,500 years - Age of the world's oldest continuously operating business - Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company founded in 578 AD to build Buddhist temples. It survived until 2006 when it was finally absorbed by a larger firm after nearly 14 centuries of unbroken trading.

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666 - Number of a Polish bus that takes you to a town called Hel.

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93 degrees C - Temperature of the Shanay-Timpishka river deep in the Peruvian Amazon. It's a 4-mile stretch of near-boiling water that instantly cooks anything falling into it, heated by geothermal springs.

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Get rid of Farage, or Farage will get rid of Great Britain...
Saturday sets the scene for Sunday - just see where Great Britain is currently with BREXIT, Farage's other raison d'etre.

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8 months - Time it took a French artist called Michel Lotito to eat an entire Cessna 150 plane between 1978 and 1980. He ate the metal, rubber, and glass and had no lasting ill effects.

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200 - Number of years that Europeans grew tomatoes without realising that they were edible. Early botanists thought the leaves and fruit were poisonous and no-one thought to check!

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2,000 km - Distance that the monarch butterfly migrates each year from Canada to a specific part of forest in central Mexico. Despite having never made the journey before, each new generation finds exactly the same trees.

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1958 - Year that a US Air Force jet accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia during a training exercise - it was never recovered and its exact location remains unknown to this day

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''May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.''
The Irish Prayer.

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@samrac92 2, 3, 1

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21 seconds -
Time it takes most mammals - from cats to elephants - to empty their bladders, thanks to a consistent bit of fluid physics called the 'law of urination'.

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3/3/1876 -

Date when, between 11am and 12pm, chunks of red meat fell from the sky in an incident called the Kentucky Meat Shower. It lasted for several minutes and no-one has ever worked out what caused it.

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1694 -
Year that the House of Commons first offered free snuff to MPs. It still does.

Now you know where your tax money goes 😀

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Johan de Witt, Prime Minister of The Netherlands was lynched and eaten by rioters in 1672.

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Balance shines brighter than brightness.