Population Overdrive!

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The world’s (human) population at the time of Christ was about 200 million. Now it is nearing 7 billion! Projections …Read the Rest

Dog Days

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Dog Days

The term “dog days” or the “dog days of summer” refers to the period of the year that is generally …Read the Rest

Now this one is hard to believe! On Monday 8th Sept, 2008, automated programs were allowed to wipe more than …Read the Rest

By 2010 we will all be using 1.1 Terrabytes per month!

By 2010 the average household will be using 1.1 terabytes  of bandwidth a month (that’s roughly equal to 1,000 copies …Read the Rest

Numbers with the same number of letters as their value…

There is only one number in English that has the same number of letters as it’s value, that being the …Read the Rest

On 30th June, 1908, in the early morning, something exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia. Witnesses many miles away …Read the Rest

Find other “geo facts”, inlcuding the origins of quirky placenames at the Ordnance Survey website’s Did you Know section. For …Read the Rest

It is thought that dogs noses are around a million times more sensitive to certain smells than human noses. Reasons …Read the Rest

Swedish parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding had planned never to name their baby boy, born in 1991, as a …Read the Rest

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The Norfolk Broads are not naturally occurring lakes, but are for a large part man-made. They were formed when the …Read the Rest

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