The Most Amazing Facts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUS1asDFb5UQN03siBaFQyraOcXzKaROJGctbNVkUctebqg-HHNHs16MSxVYq3Wn_kJWoVtj2IRL-C987X8frhkEmJl2TqNm1RtGUn8LzTaxe4fbE_Z5Ff8FsG6ZKVkdMnr8RT1NQ9h8/s1600/391300_447292728627302_933163458_n.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUS1asDFb5UQN03siBaFQyraOcXzKaROJGctbNVkUctebqg-HHNHs16MSxVYq3Wn_kJWoVtj2IRL-C987X8frhkEmJl2TqNm1RtGUn8LzTaxe4fbE_Z5Ff8FsG6ZKVkdMnr8RT1NQ9h8/s400/391300_447292728627302_933163458_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Car tire's dumped on the ocean floor!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Approximately two million old car tires are on the ocean floor off </i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fort Lauderdale in the US, dumped in the 1970s with the intent of </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">creating an artificial reef. The tires are now scouring the ocean floor and wedging against the natural reef, killing coral.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"There are no really historical records of the volume and type of </i></span><i>material that was spilled in the oceans before the establishment of an anti-dumping law. However, it is estimated that in 1968, 38 million tons of petroleum-based product (plastic), 2 to 4 tonnes of chemical waste, more than one million tons of heavy metals were released into the ocean. The U.S. archive shows </i></span><i>that between 1946 </i><i>and 1970 over 55,000 containers of radioactive waste were disposed in 3 sites of dumping of the Pacific Ocean. In addition, 34,000 tons of radioactive wastes were disposed in three sites of dumping of the U.S. east coast between 1951 and 1962. No law on </i><i>dumping radioactive waste has been put into force before 1972."</i></i></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>No one has bothered to remove the waste</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-X8GBHDwmCOcXhVKXg0_Fdpyi9Ws9RtOUEyarl3dQfIm-V6PM63wT09DtS7pvd4X3IMqeXx_hYuFbifYlz-Agt9eNsEA3RxfpQ8FMA8FwulECR-6aZgjVSnNa9PtFm06OWeXXDBrWQM/s1600/397017_349787275044515_574734686_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-X8GBHDwmCOcXhVKXg0_Fdpyi9Ws9RtOUEyarl3dQfIm-V6PM63wT09DtS7pvd4X3IMqeXx_hYuFbifYlz-Agt9eNsEA3RxfpQ8FMA8FwulECR-6aZgjVSnNa9PtFm06OWeXXDBrWQM/s400/397017_349787275044515_574734686_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Turtles with Constricted Shells</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This turtle experienced a different kind of plastic surgery. When it was wee </i></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">turtlette, it crawled through plastic waste that stuck to its </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">small shell, holding them captive to the ring's circumference and </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">inhabiting proper growth. As it got older, its exoskeleton amazingly </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grew around the plastic rings! </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Man messes with Nature.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Animal have to pay the price...</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFklKyKEiYLZm6Rb9PQ5CMKt0TUwVovx3-mX8SErVwfZw5FKj7mFICvmc0R6Xnl0PUpyL8GG_nE9VKoldQqgm2SJJOWvvP6WSF1EYFpLaDJDyNFwkjxLoc42KLA63Mjz3AlwG7jmUjl0/s1600/426613_342112319145344_1739297380_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFklKyKEiYLZm6Rb9PQ5CMKt0TUwVovx3-mX8SErVwfZw5FKj7mFICvmc0R6Xnl0PUpyL8GG_nE9VKoldQqgm2SJJOWvvP6WSF1EYFpLaDJDyNFwkjxLoc42KLA63Mjz3AlwG7jmUjl0/s400/426613_342112319145344_1739297380_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Cat Island of Japan</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Cat Island, officially called Tashirojima, is a small island in </i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, that is inhabited by more cats than people. The island has become known as "Cat Island" due to the large stray cat </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">population that thrives as a result </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the local belief that feeding cats will bring wealth and good fortune. The cat population is now larger than the human population on the island. </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But Tashirojima doesn't have too many </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">humans to begin with. There are approximately 100 residents on Cat Island, and most of them are over 70. One person is 37, and everybody else is over 60 years old. With more than 50% of the population being over 65 years of age, the survival of the island is </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">threatened. It won't be long before the four footed animal end up </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">being the only living being on the Cat Island.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the past, the islanders raised silkworms for silk, and cats were kept in </span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">order to keep the mouse population down (because mice are </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a natural predator of silkworms). Fixed-net fishing was popular on </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the island after the Edo Period and fishermen from other areas would come and stay on the island overnight. The cats would go to </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the inns where the fishermen were staying and beg for scraps. </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Over </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">time, the fishermen developed a fondness for the cats and would </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">observe the cats closely, interpreting their actions as predictions of </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the weather and fish patterns. One day, when the fishermen were collecting rocks to use with the fixed-nets, a stray rock fell and killed one of the cats. The fishermen, feeling sorry for the loss of the cat, buried it and enshrined it at this location on the island.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cats are so popular here that a local architect had several building built in the shape of Cats.</span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPet8gsVfD4b0-HZI70NgzCnagKjjPniWUSNM6HVLVViGJmV7_w_nghlB5hM1hS2BYyqlj45RnMku1tM4XLbUdQLE60zcIirpLYmILppBK808MSAPKyoiZk20g2eo1q6YDVorHkI3Hs8/s1600/557740_375528672470375_393069687_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPet8gsVfD4b0-HZI70NgzCnagKjjPniWUSNM6HVLVViGJmV7_w_nghlB5hM1hS2BYyqlj45RnMku1tM4XLbUdQLE60zcIirpLYmILppBK808MSAPKyoiZk20g2eo1q6YDVorHkI3Hs8/s400/557740_375528672470375_393069687_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Earth Hour From Space</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This year, as participants all over the world switch off their lights</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Saturday (March 31) for Earth Hour, one of the astronauts living on the International Space Station will be the first to observe the event from on board the orbiting outpost.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Earth Hour will take place worldwide on Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time, during which time people are encouraged to </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">turn off their lights for an hour to raise awareness about climate </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">change and to highlight the need for sustainability.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dutch astronauts Andre Kuipers will keep watch over the planet from the space station's orbital perch 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, according to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA).</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Must share it and spread the awareness among all. I guess many of us wont be knowing it.</b></span></div></div><br /></div>

The Most Amazing Facts

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