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How about Five Fun Facts for Friday!

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1. Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor. It was the European Space Agency's Olympus, and it happened in 1993.
2. Every tentacle on an octopus has its own brain.
3. People born in 1957, 1968, 1979, 1989, 2000, and 2013 will live an average of 2 years less than other people . . . thanks to peaks in solar activity those years. Apparently the UV radiation from the solar rays affects growth during pregnancy.
And people born in 1954, 1964, 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2008 should live the longest, thanks to being born during periods of lower solar activity
4. China SHOULD be split into five time zones . . . but since 1949, the entire country has been on the same time zone for "national unity." That creates some crazy time changes at its borders . . . the largest is at its border with Afghanistan. When you cross over, there's immediately a three-and-a-half-hour time difference.
5. It's possible that Beethoven had an irregular heartbeat, which influenced the innovative and unique rhythms in his compositions.