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1. Burned meat and fish and cured foods such as tocino, ham, and tinapa contain cancer-causing substances, known as mutagens and carcinogens. Avoid these foods.

2. Japanese experts say that green tea is the most powerful natural cure for cancer. By drinking 6 grams of tea each day, you can get 50% of your daily Vitamin E requirements. The same amount of tea gives 20%of your daily Vitamin A requirements.

3. Tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. It has a lot of Vitamin C and Vitamin A. Its nutrients are found in the skin and not in the juicy seeds.

4. New York and Tokyo have the cleanest air among the world's largest cities. Mexico City has the dirtiest. A UN study reported this.

5. Largest Living Tree. The tallest redwood tree is in California, USA. Its height is over 110 meters and the base is over 7 meters across. Its trunk is so thick that a bus can be hidden behind it!

6. The baobab tree found in Australia has a big and hollow trunk and was once used as a jail!

7. The giant kelp, a kind of seaweed, can grow about 60 centimeters a day. It grows underwater in California and Canada.

8. A female pigeon has to be able to see another pigeon before she can lay her eggs. Seeing her reflection in a mirror will work if there are no other pigeons around!

9. Sea anemones are animals, not plants. They feed by catching small creatures in their tentacles. They are poisonous.

10. Hummingbirds, found in South America, can fly backwards! They flap their wings very fast up to about 80 times a second.

11. A fish called sole can change into more than one color at a time. It can turn yellow, brown, blue, green, and even pink! If it lies on brown sand that has yellow stones in it, the sole's body turns brown with yellow spots.

12. The slowest moving animal is not a snail or turtle but the three-toed sloth. It can only walk at 1.8 to 2 meters per hour!

13. A cheetah can run 110 kilometers per hour (70 mph). But it can run that fast only for about 30 meters.

14. Swallows are small square-tailed birds which have migrated from Argentina to the San Juan Capistrano Valley near Los Angeles, California, regularly for hundreds of years. They have built their nests on the roofs of a Catholic mission's tall building since 1776. It is said that the swallows usually arrive in San Juan, Capistrano between 7:45 and 8:30 a.m. every March 19, St. Joseph’s Day. Sometimes they come late for a day or two because of bad weather conditions. They leave San Juan Capistrano on October 23, St. John’s death anniversary, to begin their 6,000-mile journey back to Argentina.
    Their arrival in San Juan Capistrano is usually welcomed with the ringing of the bells as thousands of tourists watch. A month-long celebration is held in the city.

15. Only female bees can sting!

16. Monkeys, mice, spiders, and frogs have been sent in spacecraft. They help scientists learn about space travel.

17. The worlds largest freshwater lake is Lake Superior in North America with an area of 82,103 sq. km. The lake is partly in Canada and partly in the United States.

18. Although air seems to have little weight, the weight of the entire atmosphere is enormous. The total atmosphere is about 45,000 billion or 45 trillion kilograms. The weight causes the air to exert pressure on all objects in it.

19. Ashes from Mt. Pinatubo have reached the skies over the USA, New Zealand, and other countries, thus affecting their climate.

20. The side of the moon facing the earth contains over 500,000 craters.

21. Geologists have dated some of the moon rocks to be 4.1 billion years old. This date makes them older than any earth rocks.

22. The kidneys are made up of tubules (part of the nephron) and if these tubules were straightened out and placed end to end the length would measure more than 280 kilometers long.

23. Piranhas are ferocious flesh-eating fish. Their triangular teeth are so sharp that the Amazon Indians use them as scissors.

24. The largest fish known is the shark that is 15 m long – the height of a 4-story building.

25. The rarest land animal is probably the Tenrec which is known only from the type of specimen collected in East Madagascar. A sample is a specimen preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural History.

26. The largest known fruit is the double coconut. It can weigh up to 27 kg – as heavy as a 9-year old child.

27. The atolls form the third kind of reef. The atolls were used as testing sites for atomic and nuclear weapons during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.

28. Scientists were able to make a 10,000-yer-old seed germinate and sprout. The Arcticlupin seed was found in Yukon, Canada.

29. Electricity can be produced by fruits. Some fruits like lemons and pomelos contain chemicals called acids. These acids react to copper or zinc and cause electrons to flow, thus producing electric current.

30. Stroking a cat’s fur generates electricity. About 9.2 billion strokes would produce enough power to light a 75-watt bulb for exactly one minute.

31. The units of measure used in measuring electricity are named in honor of the people who formulated them:
    Ampere is the unit used to measure electric current and is measured by an ammeter. The ampere was named after Andre Marie Ampere.
    Coulomb is the quantity of electricity transferred by current of one ampere in one second. The coulomb was named after Charles A. de Coulomb.
    Volt is used to measure the amount of force pushing electrons through a circuit or electromotive force. The volt was named after the Italian scientist, Alessandro Volta.
    Watt is the product of one volt multiplied by one ampere. The watt was named in honor of the English scientist, James Watt.

32. You have to dig 20 tons of rocks just to find 24.75 grams of gold. If 50 million tons of waste rock from just one African gold mine were spread out, the rock would bury Manhattan Island, New York, USA under a layer 2.4 meters deep.

33. Sahara Desert is the sunniest place on earth. It receives an average of 4,300 hours of sunshine a year, 97 percent of the possible total.

34. There is no sunset on the first day of summer in the North Pole.

35. The estimated energy of an average-sized typhoon is equivalent to that of 40,000 hydrogen bombs. This energy comes from the latent heat of condensation that is released as the water vapor condenses. A constant supply of water vapor is needed to maintain a typhoon. This is furnished by the warm ocean surface.

36. People used to believe that Mars was inhabited by Martians. In 1939, some people actually believed that Martians had landed when they heard the radio presentation of H. G. Well’s “War of the Worlds”.

37. Saturn is so light that if we could find a pond large enough to accommodate Saturn, it would float. Saturn is made of light gases, mostly hydrogen and helium – the same gases that make your balloon fly.

38. The most volcanically active body in the solar system is Io. It is the innermost major satellite of Jupiter. Eight volcanoes on Io were seen actually erupting by Voyager 1. Four months later, Voyager 2 revealed that six were still active.

39. The longest solar eclipse was measured on June 20, 1955 (7 min. 29 sec.), seen from the Philippines. A study concludes that a 7 min. 29 sec. eclipse will happen on July 16, 2186 which will be clearly seen in mid-Atlantic. This will be then the longest eclipse in 1,469 years.

40. The waves of sunlight spout out in all directions. They travel at the speed of 186,282 miles per second. Most of this light speeds into the darkness of space. Part of it heads straight towards our planet, the earth.

41. All water on earth would fill 10 quintillion, 566 quadrillion, 293 trillion bathtubs.

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