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DATE FACT OF THE DAY 2/1/12      The lowest point on earth is called Challenger Deep, located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean - nearly 36,000 feet (about 6.8 miles) below sea level.- Provided by The World Almanac 2012 2/2/12      Only 148 people have successfully climbed both Mount Everest and the world's second-highest mountain, K2, as of the end of 2010.- Provided by The World Almanac 2012 2/3/12      The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, were adopted as a single unit on Dec. 15, 1791. They constitute a collection of mutually reinforcing guarantees of individual rights and of limitations on federal and state governments. The Bill of Rights derives from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), the colonial struggle against king and Parliament, and a gradually broadening concept of equality among the American people.- Provided by The World Almanac 2012 2/4/12      The aphid (also called plant louse, greenfly, ant cow) is any of several species of sap-sucking, soft-bodied insects (order Homoptera) about the size of a pinhead, with tubelike projections (cornicles) on the abdomen. It is a serious plant pest. Aphids not only stunt plant growth, produce plant galls, and transmit plant virus diseases but also deform leaves, buds, and flowers.- Provided by The World Almanac 2012 2/5/12      Tickets were still being sold for Super Bowl XLVI on the NFL's website this week for between $2,609 and $15,343.- Provided by CSMonitor.com 2/6/12      A mesa is a flat-topped tableland with one or more steep sides, common in the Colorado Plateau regions of the United States; a butte is similar but smaller. Both are formed by erosion; during denudation, or downcutting and stripping, areas of harder rock in a plateau act as flat protective caps for portions of underlying land situated between such places as stream valleys, where erosion is especially active. This results in a table mountain (mesa) or fortress hill (butte).- Provided by The World Almanac 2012 2/7/12      Zulu time, often used in US Government communications, is another way of saying Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).- Provided by The World Almanac 2012

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