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DID YOU KNOW...
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

1. The Virginia opossum is the only example found in the USA of what type ?
2. Between 1958 and 1963, The Kingston Trio had ten Billboard Top Pop 40
hits, but only one reached the top of the chart... Which one ?
3. What is the Capital of Nevada ?
4. Haiti shares an island with which other country?
5. In an ecosystem, a Detritivore eats ... what ?
6. What currency is used in Finland?
7. What Canadian city hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
8. Which two colors were on the Soviet Union Flag, which had a cross-peen hammer, a sickle and a star?

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
There are more trees on earth than there are stars in our galaxy.
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1. Marsupial
2. "Tom Dooley"
3. Carson City
4. Dominican Republic
5. Dead Organic Matter
6. the Euro
7. Calgary
8. Yellow and Red
TRUTH !!
This claim has its origins in a September 2015 paper published in the
scientific journal Nature titled “Mapping tree density at a global scale”
which provided an estimate for the number of trees on Earth — 3.04 trillion:
"We provide the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a
global scale. This map reveals that the global number of trees is
approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous
estimate. Of these trees, approximately 1.30 trillion exist in tropical and
subtropical forests, with 0.74 trillion in boreal regions and 0.66 trillion
in temperate regions. "

According to NASA education and outreach specialist Maggie Masetti, most
estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at between 100 billion
and 400 billion stars:
There are different models for estimating the number of stars in the Milky
Way and the answers they give differ depending on what is used as the
average mass of a star. The most common answer seems to be that there are
100 billion stars in the Milky Way on the low-end and 400 billion on the
high end, but with even higher numbers thrown around.

Read more here ...
http://www.snopes.com/are-there-more-trees-on-earth-than-there-are-stars-in-the-milky-way/
 
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