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1 – The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second). 2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth. 3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born are...

The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world and it produced thousands of tons of fish for the local economy annually. Since the 1960s, however, the Aral Sea has been sinking. Soviet Canals In the 1920s, the Soviet Unionturned lands of the the Uzbek SSR into cotton plantations and...

-More people still use Windows XP than Mac OS X as of May, 2015. -11% of people have "1234" as their ATM pin. -The village of Dull, Scotland, is a "sister community" with the US town of Boring. -During prohibition, the U.S. Congress had their own bootlegger so senators and congressmen could...