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Interesting Facts - Page 66
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In Massachusetts, it is legally allowed for a 12 year old girl to marry with parental consent.
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Every U.S. state except one has recorded a temperature of at least 100° F. The one exception? Hawaii.
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In the last 100 years, the height of the average person born in South Korea has increased by 17 cm (6 inches). This is the greatest increase of any country in the world.
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China exports three times as much to the United States as it imports. In 2019, the total difference was over $320 billion.
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Humans aren't the only organisms to change the climate. It first happened about 2.4 billion years ago
when photosynthesizing microbes evolved. They changed the Earth's atmosphere by sucking up carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen. The changes were so extreme that the entire Earth became covered in ice. The equator was colder than Antarctica is today. This phenomenon is known as "Snowball Earth".
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'Also of interest is that Alaska and Hawaii share the same record high temperature of 100 degrees. Alaska's record was set in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, and Hawaii's record occurred on April 27, 1931, near Pahala on the Big Island.'
Sit-ups: Women’s lower center of gravity makes sit-ups easier for women than men; basically, we carry more weight around our hips and our pelvises are wider, thus we’re more “anchored” to the floor. Men have more size & musculature in the chest, so repeated sit-ups take more effort. (The military made their fitness sit-up requirements the same for men & women back in 1999.)
Ultra-endurance anything: The longer a race (upwards of 6+ hours only, the more the tortoise women excel over the hare men, but for different reasons. Ultra-distance swimming is dominated by women (think swimming the English Channel), due to the extra body fat that keeps heat in and muscles warm. In cycling & running though, women’s edge is a little more mysterious: researchers believe it is due to a greater distribution of slow twitch muscle fibers, evolved perhaps to tolerate childbirth.
There ya go!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon
An athlete of Phelpsian proportions, though certainly an outlier
Sex is a biological feature, which we can now change thanks to the progress of medicine.
So yeah, both can change.