MMag 073 Facts

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When you are standing still, you are still traveling very fast, because the earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour at the equator, and orbiting the sun at 66,700 miles an hour!

A female Cod (fish) can lay up to 5,000 eggs but only about six survive. If all the eggs turned into fish, there would not be enough room in the ocean for anything else!

The Rinconada Racetrack in Venezuela has a swimming pool for the horses!

Ever heard of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. She was not even Egyptian! She was a Greek!