?? Parachutes, Basketball, and Bottles of Fizz
Charlie Jones
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THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
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50 tonnes ?- ?Weight of rubbish left on Mount Everest by climbers. During this year's season, a Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tonnes of waste, four dead bodies, and a skeleton.?
14,000 ft ?- ?Distance that Emma Carey fell to Earth without a working parachute and survived. She jumped from a helicopter in 2013 into an empty cow pasture in Switzerland - both her main?and backup?parachutes tangled?and her instructor was passed out on her back.?
63 ?- ?Number of leaves that a Japanese gardener has grown?on a single clover.
12,345 ?- ?Number of shots that Michael Jordan missed in his NBA career.
1/4 ?- ?Fraction of the Sahara Desert that's sandy. The rest is covered with gravel, mountains, and oases.?
4 ?- ?Number of times a year that the average single male changes their bedsheets.?
42,000 ?- ?Number of bottles of Pol Roger Champagne drunk by Winston Churchill in his lifetime. When he died in 1965 Pol Roger ordered black-bordered labels to be placed on all their bottles in his honour.
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GUESS THE NUMBER
How many holes are there in a straw?
(Answer next time)
Last time:
How many times will the average person yawn in their lifetime?
The answer is 250,000.
LOGO of the week
This company has been in the business news this week.
But who is it?
Last time it was Vauxhall Motors Ltd
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Charlie