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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:39 pm
The currency unit in Madagascar is the ariary, which is divided into five iraimbilanja.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:39 pm
Ninety per cent of the people in Madagascar live on less than two dollars a day

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:40 pm
There are more than 100 species and sub-species of lemurs in Madagascar.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:41 pm
There are more bicycles in the world than motorcars.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:42 pm
About 400 million of the world’s one billion bicycles are in China.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:42 pm
The earliest form of a bicycle was a wooden plank mounted on two wheels with a cushion to sit on invented by Comte Mede de Sivrac in 1790.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:42 pm
Both these devices were propelled by the rider’s feet on the ground. Modern bicycles arrived in 1839 when Kirkpatrick Macmillan added pedals.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:43 pm
There were 482,000 bicycle thefts in England and Wales in 2012. That’s almost one every minute.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:43 pm
There are more than 96,000 bicycle-related patents at the European Patent Office.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:45 pm
Around 450BC, King Artaxerxes of Persia gave the prophet Nehemiah a letter granting him safe passage to Judah. This is seen by many as the first passport.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:45 pm
British passports originated from the time of Henry V and the Safe Conducts Act of 1414.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:46 pm
Passports were written in Latin or English until 1772, then French, and English again from 1885.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:46 pm
The Queen does not have (or need) a passport.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:46 pm
Fleming kept it in a specially made silk-lined morocco case. It was sold in 1972 for £1,200.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:47 pm
Holders of British passports can travel to 173 countries visa-free or visa granted on arrival.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:47 pm
The Vatican issues passports and the Pope always has “Passport No 1”.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:47 pm
Perhaps the rarest passports of all are the British Queen’s Messenger Passports carried by royal couriers. Only 15 of these are in use.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:48 pm
Thunder is the sound we hear from the sonic wave caused by the expansion of air that has been rapidly heated by lightning.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:49 pm
The Norse God of Thunder, Thor, was also god of strength, agriculture, farmers, free men, rain and fertility.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:49 pm
Thunder was supposedly created by the rolling wheels of his chariot, which was drawn by two goats called Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder.
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