The embedded engines of the futuristic SAX-40 aeroplane design hark back to the very first jet airliner, the 1950s British De Havilland Comet. -------------------------------------------------------
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This was on the radio this morning, and it made me think... Personally, I will still wear red because I was brought up believing that the red symbolised the blood shed, and I can't turn my back on that.
If you have enough patience, you can film the moment when a squabble breaks out in an Antarctic penguin colony and they collectively 'exhale' warm air. -------------------------------------------------------
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Galapagos giant tortoises can store enough fat in their 250kg bodies to live for a year without eating anything. -------------------------------------------------------
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The latest fossil find of a human ancestor had a brain volume less than one quarter that of a full-grown modern human. -------------------------------------------------------
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The major 1997-8 El Nino climate event in the Pacific Ocean is blamed for the deaths of 2,000 people. -------------------------------------------------------
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Pulsars are super-dense stars, cramming as much mass as our Sun has into a volume just 10km or so in diameter. -------------------------------------------------------
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