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141. Fact
Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
142. Fact
The starfish species, porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).
143. Fact
The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
144. Fact
The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the bay of fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
145. Fact
The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 f (511,000,000 c) at the tokamak fusion test reactor in princeton, nj, usa.
146. Fact
The most powerful laser in the world, the nova laser at lawrence livermore national laboratory, ca, usa, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
147. Fact
The fastest computer in the world is the cray y-mp c90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.
148. Fact
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
149. Fact
The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the mariana trench in the pacific ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.
150. Fact
The largest cave in the world (the sarawak chamber in malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.
151. Fact
The hottest planet in the solar system is venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 f (462 c).
152. Fact
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
153. Fact
The first electronic digital computer (called eniac - the electronic numerical integrator and calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
154. Fact
The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
155. Fact
The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
156. Fact
There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
157. Fact
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
158. Fact
Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago.dis was discovered by analyzing ice cores from greenland the pollution was attributed to the romans who used copper for military purposes n to produce coins.
159. Fact
Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
160. Fact
In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km).
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There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
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