Monday, 1 February 2021

Monday= Fact Day

 

Here we are at Monday so here are more useless facts.

The fastest moon in our solar system circles Jupiter once every seven hours travelling at 70,400 miles peer hour.

Oak trees do not have acorns till they reach 50 years of age.

A piece of meteorite from Mars about the size of a pea once sold for 4,583 pounds that is over a thousand times its weight in gold.

The Egyptians were extremely fond of cats, the penalty for killing a cat 4,000 years ago was death

Planet Earth actually rotated faster a hundred million years ago, making each year longer by roughly five days. 600 million years ago a year was 425 days.



5 comments:

  1. All interesting but found the one about the cats intriguing.

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  2. Interesting facts especially the ones about the planets and cats.

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  3. Margaret D........Yes it is

    Nancy........Oh yeah

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  4. But if the oak was going 70,400 mph would it get acorns in 58.21 years (425 days times 50) or 42.94 years (going the other direction)?

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