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SINCE 2014 ?

1835 ?- ?Year that The Sun, a New York newspaper, claimed beavers, unicorns, and 'man bats' had been spotted on the Moon. The hoax made it the most popular newspaper in the world at the time.?

90 minutes ?- ?Length of time that a vampire bat can run on a treadmill without stopping.?

1.5 tonnes ?- ?Weight of a car travelling at 60 kmph that has the same mechanical energy as?a piano dropped from the top of the Statue of Liberty.

15 ?- ?Age when a London-born teenager died of leukaemia in 2006. He is about to be made a saint by the Catholic church. Carlo Acutis has been labelled the 'patron saint of the internet' after his work recording miracles online ...?and performing two miracles of his own in the past four years.?

3,704 kmph ?- ?Speed of water shot from waterjet cutters (that's Mach 3). They're used to cut through steel.

62.8 cm ?- ?Height of the smallest woman in the world, Jyoti Amge. Yesterday she met Rumeysa Gegi, the tallest woman in the world at 215.16cm tall, for tea in London. (photo )

6%? - ?Percentage of humans that have a third nipple.?

49 seconds ?- ?Length of time it?takes Amazon to generate $1 million in sales. It takes Microsoft 1 min, 59 sec, Netflix 13 min, 11 sec, and Starbucks 14 min, 17 sec.

82 ?- ?Age that Joe Biden turned this week. Keir Starmer is 62. The leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, is just 36.

254 mph ?- ?Speed of the strongest ever recorded wind. It was detected in April 1996 on Australia's Barrow Island.? ?

This Week in History . .

1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago.." Despite being one of the most famous speeches in history, it is just 271 words long.?

1928 - Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released, the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. The cost to produce it was under $5,000. Their latest movies cost between $200 million and $300 million each.?

1963 - JFK is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Not only was he the first Catholic President, but he is still the youngest ever elected President at age 43.?

1976 - "Rocky" premiers in New York. Stallone wrote the first draft of the movie in three and a half days.?

2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. Her husband Joachim Sauer does so much to avoid the spotlight that he didn't even attend his wife's inauguration ceremony as Chancellor and flies on different planes to her to avoid the media.?

Have a great weekend.

Charie