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Did you know?
Red haired people have
fewer hairs on their heads
than brown or black haired
individuals.
The first Olympic race,
held in 776 BC, was won
by Corubus, a chef.
The two sides of your
face are not the same.
In the evening you are
not as tall as you are in
the morning.
From one strand of hair,
scientists can tell what you
ate and if you smoke but they
cannot tell if you are male or
female.
In 1975, Junko Tabei from Japan
became the first woman to reach
the summit of Mount Everest.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa
mountaineer Tenzing Norgay were
the first men who are known to have
reached the summit of Everest, which
they did in 1954.
The first modern Olympic
Games were held in Athens,
Greece in 1896. There were 311
male and no female competitors.
A child of today is
less fit and fatter than
a child of the 1960s.
