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1. The worlds first astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine prayer times and the direction of Mecca.

2. From the deepest ocean bottoms sound waves take fewer than 15 seconds to return to the surface.

3. The weight of the Antarctic ice cap deforms the shape of the Earth.

4. About third of the worlds population live in latitudes between the tropic of Cancer and tropic of Capricorn.

5. Sea otters have up to a million hairs per sq. Inch of skin.

6. Passenger pigeons ,now extinct , once migrated across the US in flocks of up to two billion.

7. Four inches of snow falling on a given area contain the same water as 0.4 inch of rain falling there.

8. A single acre of red mangrove sheds about three tons of leaves a year.

9. About 2 % of water on Earth is locked up in snow, ice ,and glaciers.

10. One out of every six people living in the world today speaks Mandarin Chinese as native language.

11. Muslims believe that this time , Arabic text of Quran is the one and only authentic message from Allah (God).

12. Americans eat about eight ounces of meat a day_ twice the worlds average.

13. The Wright brothers' first successful flight lasted only 12 seconds.

14. Researchers in Australia are building a microscopic robot that would move around in a manner similar to the E.coli bacteria .The tiny machine could take a biopsy from inside the human body.

15. In 1950 Albert Einstein said,  if  A is success in life ,then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.