Percentage of tomato varieties lost
from 1903 to 1983 – 80.6
IF Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Latin America were each to increase their share of
world exports by one per cent, the resulting gains in income could lift 128 million people
out of poverty.
In 1994, out of a total of 17
different species of penguins, 5
were at risk. By 2001, that number was 10
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For every calorie of carrots flown into the UK from South Africa, 66 calories of fuel is
used
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| Caught in the net Nearly 85% of all
websites are in English. Yet less than 10% of people worldwide speak English |
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At the deepest point in the ocean the
pressure is more than 8000 per square inch, or the equivalent of one person trying to
support 50 jumbo jets
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