The most fuel-efficient 40 ton truck is the Mercedes Benz Actros, which uses 19,44 litres per 100 km (6.88 gal per 100 miles) under test drive conditions. It was tested at the High Speed Track of Nardò, Brindisi, Italy, on 29 May 2008 This average was established by driving the truck for one week 24 hours a day over 12,728 km on the test track. The whole test was monitored at all times by DEKRA, an independent testing firm for trucks.
The male scaly cricket Ornebius aperta from Australia can copulate more than 50 times in three to four hours, all with the same female. Studies reveal that each time a male mates, a bag of sperm is placed on the female which she immediately eats. The sperm is an extremely nutritious food for the female cricket which is why she devours it so eagerly. By comparison, female chimpanzees have been recorded copulating with eight different males in 15 minutes. A lioness in heat has sex
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For about 1000 years in a region of the Hunan province, China, nüshu (“women’s writing”) has been used exclusively by women to communicate their deeper feelings to other women. It is thought that it was invented by the concubine who belonged to an emperor of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Study of the scripts did not begin until 1950 but soon after had to be abandoned due to the Chinese Cultural revolution. When research began again in 1980, only about a dozen women could read nüshu
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Ashrita Furman balanced 81 pint (20 oz) beer glasses on his chin for 12.10 sec in his backyard in Jamaica, New York, USA, on 12 August 2007.
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Bonobos, primates similar to chimpanzees, which live only in the rainforests of central Democratic Republic of Congo, share 98.9% of their DNA with humans. This species, often called the ‘pygmy chimpanzee’, numbers no more than a few tens of thousands of individuals. Chimps share around 98.5% of DNA with humans.
Pygmies and the bushmen of Africa are the most genetically diverse people on Earth. For some genetic traits they have as many as 17 variations, where the rest of the peoples of Earth have only two or three. A possible explanation is that our oldest ancestors came from these regions, perhaps 200,000 years ago, and that not all of them left to spread around the world. Therefore the pygmies and bushmen represent the survivors of the original human population.
The record for the most generations to complete a half marathon is 4 and was set by Syd Taylor and three generations below him (all New Zealand) who ran the Fullers Kerikeri Half Marathon, New Zealand on 19 November 2005. The four generations were: Syd Taylor (89) 3:26:09 his children: Robert Taylor (62) 1:53:18 Dot Cubitt (nee Taylor) (65) 2:16:33 Peter Taylor (56) 2:39:23 Dot’s son: Mark Cubitt (41) 3:36:28 Mark’s Daughter and nephew: Brendan McCann (15) 1:51:40 Melissa Cubitt (18) 3:13:14
The record for most generations of the same family to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary (50th) is five. Generation #1: Philipp Jakob Kober (b.16 June 1776) married Maria Barbara Ullrich (b. 1 February 1775) in Wachenheim, Pfalz, Bayern (Bavaria), Germany. Their marriage lasted 53 years and came to an end when Maria Barbara Kober, nee Ullrich died on 28 September 1849. Generation #2: Susan Kober (b. 21 August 1810), daughter of Philipp Jakob Kober and Maria Barbara Ullrich, married Johannes Machenheimer, Jr. (b. 8 September
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The record for most generations of the same family to celebrate a diamond wedding anniversary (60th) is four by the descendants of William and Rose Hill (UK). In all there have been six diamond wedding celebrations within their family. Generation #1: William Hill (1829-1924) married Rose Anne Boot (1833-1916) on 28 November 1853 at the Swanwick Baptist Chapel, Derbyshire, UK, and celebrated their diamond anniversary in 1913. Generation #2: i. Thomas Hill (1867-1953), son of the above, married Agnes Wilson (1868-1947) on 25 April 1886
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