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Category: V

veins, vessel

  • Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult – enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.

Venus

  • Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards (clockwise). But really cares?

virus, computer

  • Storm botnet are remotely controlled conputers linked via the Storm Worm (Trojan) and in September 2007 is estimated to control up to 50 million computers. It was potentially more powerful than the world’s super computers

volcano

  • A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky