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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:26 pm
English miles also varied until 1593 when an Act of Parliament laid down that: “A mile shall contain eight furlongs, every furlong 40 poles and every pole shall contain 16 foot and an half”.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:26 pm
Under the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, a mile equals 0.9144 metres.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:27 pm
The Scots mile was traditionally longer than the English: Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is 1.12 miles long.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:27 pm
A nautical mile was one minute of arc along a meridien at sea, which is 196ft more than a mile.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:27 pm
The fastest mile run by a woman was Svetlana Masterkova’s 4min 12.56sec in 1996. That time is faster than the men’s world records until 1923.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:28 pm
The verb ‘to walk’ dates back to Old English and originally meant ‘to roll’ or ‘go back and forth’. It could also mean ‘to curl one’s hair’.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:28 pm
It came to be used mainly for moving around on foot from the 15th century onwards.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:30 pm
In 1996 the President of Colombia introduced a bill to make drunken walking illegal.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:30 pm
In 2011 Canadian Jean Beliveau completed a 46,600-mile walk around the world that had taken him to 64 countries. It took 11 years, two months.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:30 pm
At a steady 3mph without stopping, it takes just under a year to walk the length of the equator or just over nine years to walk to the Moon.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:31 pm
Research suggests that the average British child walks 12,000 to 16,000 steps a day. The average American adult walks 5,117.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:31 pm
It would take on average one hour 43 minutes to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:32 pm
In an average lifetime, a person will walk a distance equal to three times round the equator.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:32 pm
The average housewife has been calculated to walk 594 miles a year in the course of her daily housewifely duties.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:32 pm
Sundback received a patent for his zip, which he called a “Separable fastener” on March 20, 1917.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:33 pm
The earliest known use of the word ‘zip’ was in 1875 when it was used for the noise of mosquitoes.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:33 pm
In Milos Forman's Oscar-winning film Amadeus on the life of Mozart, set in the 18th century, actresses are clearly seen wearing dresses that are zipped up at the back.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:33 pm
In the US postcodes are known as ZIP codes, the ZIP standing for Zone Improvement Plan.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:34 pm
YKK group in Japan is the biggest zip maker, which is why the letters YKK are on so many zips.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:34 pm
Sundback’s invention was assured success when the US Navy bought 10,000 zips for use on new flying suits in the First World War.
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