IB Interesting Facts 1968‚ IB‚ standing for the International Baccalaureate‚ has been founded as a non-profit educational organization at the International School of Geneva. It was created by teachers at the school‚ in addition to help from teachers from all over the world. Today‚ the International Baccalaureate has grown into a university preparatory program that has been divided‚ in most schools‚ into three programs for students as young as 3 years old to students 19 years old. • It was first
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Funny facts about humans 1. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left. 2. The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain. 3. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. 4. The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women. 5. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 6. A baby is born every seven seconds. 7. The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in
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Amusing facts about Sweden‚ Swedish Culture‚ and Swedish Governance‚ compiled by an American. As of 2004 you can pay your Swedish taxes by sending an SMS message from your cell phone. The government sends you a completely filled out tax form and if it looks good you just go online and click okay to pay your taxes. Taxes are generally between 50 and 70% of your income. (Of course your employer already pays the full amount of your salary to the government in taxes before you even get anything.) Companies
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It also could be filtered‚ and yet was smaller than any known bacteria. What is yellow fever? You might think it is a fever that¡¦s yellow or you might turn yellow when you get this fever. You won¡¦t turn bright yellow‚ but the pigment in your skin will turn a little bit yellow. Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne and viral disease
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It happens everywhere‚ and you see it everyday. Yet‚ no one really notices or acknowledges that it’s happening. It is all around us everywhere. Downtown on the streets‚ under the bridges and in the parks. It is homelessness. In Canada alone‚ there are 150 000 people who are homeless at this very minute‚ according to the Government of Canada. Yet‚ when everyone thinks of a homeless person‚ they think of someone who lives on the street in a box. But‚ that is not always the
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Facts About Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious‚ growing epidemic‚ cutting across all categories of race‚ ethnicity‚ family income and locale. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years‚ a trend that means‚ for the first time in our history‚ American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. Additionally‚ we spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions‚ with childhood health care costs rapidly increasing that number. Researchers have estimated
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There should have been more about Christopher Columbus on the United States history myths search. Not only did he not discover that the world was round‚ but he never even landed in America. The more research I did‚ the worst I found out he was. In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus and the Santa Maria shipwrecked off what is known now as the Bahamas. The land was inhabited by the peaceful Lucayan people. The Lucayan people worked for hours rescuing the crew and ship. Christopher Columbus did not look at
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carried out by pollinators‚ which include bees‚ wasps‚ flies‚ butterflies‚ moths‚ several species of birds‚ the wind‚ beetles‚ water‚ ants‚ bats‚ certain mammals‚ and finally humans. The pollinator depends on the type of flower‚ its structure‚ and what it attracts. Once the pollinator completes its job of moving the pollen to the stigma‚ the grain travels down the pollen tube and joins with the ovule beginning the fertilization process. A plant producing fruit is dependent on fertilization‚ which
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The dearest place on the map for me. Russia‚ officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic‚ comprising 83federal subjects. From northwest to southeast‚Russia sharesborders with Norway‚ Finland‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Poland‚ Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijan‚ Kazakhstan‚ China‚ Mongolia‚ and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk‚ and the US state of Alaska by
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moon and back.a 6. Because the heart has its own electrical impulse‚ it can continue to beat even when separated from the body‚ as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.c 7. The fetal heart rate is approximately twice as fast as an adult’s‚ at about 150 beats per minute. By the time a fetus is 12 weeks old‚ its heart pumps an amazing 60 pints of blood a day.g 8. The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. Only the corneas receive no blood supply.c 9. During an average
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