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? Gladys Aylward Josephine Kingston Ingrid Bergman Mary Smith

2. The human body contains enough iron to make what? A nail A car engine An anvil 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 Billions of microscopic teeth Copper Nitrate Carbon

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

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

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

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