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The Today I learned–The New York Times’ fun column always highlights some surprising and interesting facts. In that spirit,The New York Times lists some of the most eye-catching things out of the column and edits them into What I Learned This owing are some facts out of What I Learned in 2016.

The world’s most-used natural resource (apart from water,listed at the second place and air,as the champion) is sand,which consists of extremely small pieces of stone-and it’s disappearing.

A team’s success (at work) is often driven by 3 factors (with the importance from high to low) —its culture,the interpersonal relationship and the IQ or talent of its individuals.

Giraffes have been keeping a secret from most of us for a long time: They’ really four different species,not one.    The Greenland Shark lives at least 272 years and it could live as long as 512 years,which makes it the oldest living thing with a backbone（脊椎）on Earth.

More that 70 percent of Americans think Granola Bars (格拉诺拉燕麦棒)are resting,less than 30 percent of nutritionists（营养学家）agree.

Nearly 80 percent of teenagers say they don’t like to eat cereal porridge（燕麦粥）for breakfast,because they have to clean up the bowls after eating it.

It’s myth that closing unused apps on your smartphone will prolong battery turning off Wi-Fi doesn’t help,either.

Annual percentage of highway death had been going down for the last four decades till it last year recorded the largest increase in 50 e Snapchat and other smarphone apps.

Death from gun-shooting is as enough as from car accidents in the United Stated and as scarce as from lightning strikes in Japan,which owns the reputation of one of the safest countries.

rding to the passage,the world’s most-used natural resource is______.

r                                   e

rding to the passage,the most important factor of a team’s success is_____.

A.a team’s culture     interpersonal relationship        vidual IQ         vidual talent

h of the following descriptions is TRUE according to the passage?

people still don’t know that giraffes have four species.

Greenland Shark is the oldest living life on Earth.

al porridge is as unhealthy as Granola Bars for teenagers.

ing unused apps on smart phones will prolong battery life.

underlined word “scarce” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.

gh                     liar             

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