Interesting Facts

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1. What was the name of the English missionary who to travelled to China in 1930 and jointly set up home in the Inn of the Eight Happinesses? Ingrid Bergman Mary Smith Josephine Kingston Gladys Aylward

2. The human body contains enough iron to make what? An anvil A nail A car engine A hammerhead

3. Genetically speaking, all humans are very similar to cabbages. True False

4. When we look at the sun from Earth, we are seeing it seven minutes ago. True False

5. What is shark skin composed of? Fungus and an alga Carbon Copper Nitrate Billions of microscopic teeth

6. Florence Nightingale is best known for being a nurse in the Crimean war. But what was her profession? Statistician She was a suffragette Nurse, nothing else She was unemployed, but from a rich family

7. How many moons does Earth have? 4 1 5 0

8. More on sharks now. Which is one of a shark's extra abilities? Sensing North and South, etc. Going incredibly fast Being able to visit an octopus's garden All round vision

9. Attacks on humans by Bull sharks are sometimes mistakenly attributed to the Great White shark. True False

10. What is the lowest possible temperature, in theory? -273.C -100.C 0.C -456.C