Here are a few random facts to start your morning off:
- A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty.
If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die - Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
- King of Spades – King David
King of Clubs – Alexander the Great,
King of Hearts-Charlemagne, and
King of Diamonds – Julius Caesar - Because of thermal expansion, the Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller in summer than in winter
- The human body burns about 60 calories an hour while asleep, 85 while eating and 130 sitting working at a computer
- The ‘sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is thought to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language
Your weather forecast for today:
A minimum of 16°C and a maximum of 29°C
Hazy sunshine; air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups
Sunrise: 6:00 AM
Sunset: 6:42 PM
Weather update by AccuWeather
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