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279 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 32 31 28 (^14) Baseball This sport is very similar to softball, but played with a smaller, harder ba ...

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Nature After a tree dies, all the carbon dioxide it absorbed when alive is eventually released back into the atmosphere. The sam ...

283 With a wingspan of up to 3.5 m (11 ft), the wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of all flying birds, which means th ...

Human body 284 Your body sheds tens of thousands of skin flakes every minute. Over a lifetime, a body loses 20 kg (44 lb) of ski ...

285 An adult man normally needs to eat about 10,000 kilojoules (2,500 calories) a day. Arctic explorers need about three times t ...

Science and technology 286 Google processes more than 5 billion searches every day. The smallest particle scientists have found ...

287 The first ever robot was probably built in Ancient Greece by Archytas of Tarentum 2,500 years ago. It was a mechanical bird ...

Space 288 The Sun is half-way through its life. It has been burning for 4.6 billion years, and will run out of fuel in 5 billion ...

289 There is no sound in space, as sound cannot travel through a vacuum . Astronauts on the International Space Station have bee ...

Earth 290 The rotation of Earth is slowing down, so days are becoming longer. In the age of the dinosaurs, 60 million years ago, ...

291 Seawater freezes at -2 0 C (28 0 F) because the salt in it lowers its freezing point. There is enough electricity in a singl ...

People and places 292 Vatican City isn’t actually a city. It is a country, although it is only the size of 50 football pitches a ...

293 The Rio de Janeiro Carnival in Brazil is the world’s biggest street party, with more than 2 million people packing the stree ...

History 294 An early writing system called cuneiform was developed in Mesopotamia (part of modern-day Iraq) around 3,100 bce. It ...

295 The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million. Japan’s monarchy dates from 660 bce to the present day ...

Art and culture 296 The first blocks of flats were built in Rome in the 1st century bce. Eleven Christian churches were carved o ...

297 An estimated 1.5 billion people watched the 1985 charity concert Live Aid on television. The first permanent photograph was ...

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