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In 56 days or eight weeks a silkworm can eat 86 000
times its own body weight.
The longest place name in the United Kingdom belongs
to a Welsh village in Anglesey. It is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
and means 'the church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees
near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave'. The
website www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com
is the world's longest single-word .com domain name.
The Amazon river in Brazil empties into the South
Atlantic Ocean at the rate of 113.6 million litres (25 million gallons)
every second. It also provides the world with a quarter of its fresh
water.
The practice of kissing the pope's toe was abolished
in 1773.
The smallest pair of working scissors measure just
3.12 mm (.12 in) long and a mere 2.17 mm (.08 in) wide. They were
constructed by Ramesh Chand Dhiman of India in 1998.
An average cow produces around 5 000 litres (1 320
gallons) of milk in a year.
The canary islands are in fact named after dogs.
Bees do not have ears.
The world's largest firework was the Universe I Part
II, which weighted 700 kg (1 543 lb) and burst to a diameter of
1.2 km (.75 miles). It exploded at teh Lake Toyas Festival in Hokkaido,
Japan, on 15 July 1988.
The largest fraud ever carried out by one person amounted
to $38 million (£23 million). Webmaster Kenneth Taves of the
USA resubmitted up to 800 000 credit cards he had got from Charter
Pacific user accounts. He charged each card $19.95 (£12) per
month before he was caught.
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