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Talking about numbers

numeros-pepino1.93 metersmeasured azucchinicultivated by Sher Singh Kanwal in his orchard in Niagara Falls, New York.

4 meters highthey have thetireslargest on the market. They weigh more than four tons and are manufactured by Michelin for installation in the largest dump trucks in the world.

7.35 kilometers.This was the length of thegoods trainlongest ever built. Assembled on June 21, 2001, it consisted of 682 ore-laden wagons and was pulled by eight diesel locomotives for 275 km, in Western Australia.

35 meters wide, 35 meters long and 2,721 tons of weight
make the two largest ground transportation vehiclescrawler tractorsthat transport the space shuttles to the runway of the Kennedy Space Center (Florida).

37.4 metersis hediameterfrompizza Prepared in the Norwood hypermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 8, 1990. It took cooks 39 hours to prepare and bake it.

40 meters in lengthhave theRussian Mil Mi-26 helicopter, the largest manufactured today. Its six-bladed rotor measures 32 meters and the aircraft reaches a maximum takeoff weight of 56 tons.

54 metersIt is the height of the largest pyramid in the world. It is the pyramid ofQuetzalcoatl, in Cholula de Rivadavia (Mexico). It has a volume of 3.3 million m3, 0.9 million more than that of Cheops, in Egypt.

58.4 centimetersmeasured thebubble gum balloonmade with the mouth by American Susan Montgomery. He got it on July 19, 1994.

448 metersis the height to the deck of theTaipei 101 skyscraper, in Taiwan. 553.33 meters high is the largest tower in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.

585.45 meters long and 68.8 meters wideit has the largest ship in the world. Its aboutpetrolero years Viking.

993 m2is the surface that has thecometa Megabite. It was designed in 1997 by Peter Lynn from New Zealand.

2.479 metersis the circuit of theSteel Dragon roller coaster, in Mie (Japan). Besides being the longest, it is the highest (95 m) and the one with the greatest drop (93.5 m).

8,851.8 kilometerslong reaches theGreat wall of china.

5.428,8 m2measured thepuzzlewhich was assembled in 2002 by 777 people at the Chinese Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong.

38.422 meters measures the longest bridge in the world. Its aboutPontchartrian Causeway, which links the cities of Mandeville and Metairie, in Louisiana.

Japanese scientists create a 'washing machine for humans'

Can you imagine taking a relaxing bath in a machine that washes you with bubbles, plays relaxing music or videos?

Insect swarms generate as much electricity as a thunderstorm

Swarms of bees can generate an electrical charge of 1,000 volts per meter, a higher voltage density than thunderclouds and electrified dust storms.

This is what the Earth's magnetic field sounds like

The shield that protects our planet sounds 'pretty scary', according to ESA engineers.

Days were only 17 hours long 2.46 billion years ago

It was when the Moon was much closer to our planet. As the centuries pass, the Moon slowly recedes and the length of our day gradually lengthens accordingly.

Women are better at doing crosswords

A new study has revealed that women have a 'small but robust' advantage over time.

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