Hidden Secrets of Jacques Cousteau, Notorious Ocean Explorer

Amazing Author

Jacques Cousteau chronicled this era of his life in the books he wrote with his crew at the time. The Silent World was written by himself and Dumas, and Plongées sans câble by Phillippe.

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The More You Know

  • The glass winged butterfly lacks colored scales, which makes its wings transparent and helps it avoid predators.
  • There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
  • The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
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