Facts about Sports

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world. Football (soccer) is the most attended or watched sport in the world. Boxing became a legal sport in 1901. More than 100 million people hold hunting licenses. Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutists, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799. In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest. The record for the most Olympic medals ever won is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina. Competing in three Olympics, between 1956 and 1964, she won 18 medals. The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young,...

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Facts about Technology

160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit). A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers. There are some 1 billion computers in use. There are some 2 billion TV sets in use. There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day. The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004. Since...

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Facts about earth and space

The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon. Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius. The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick. The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph). Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years – but so does winter. The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month. Oceanography, the study of oceans,...

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