Today marked the end of the 2007 Tour De France bicycle race. Like last year, this year’s Tour was polluted with scandal and subsequent chaos. Though tarnished by the expulsion of the race’s strongest rider, Michael Rasmussen, the Tour still ended in excitement with Saturday’s individual time trial, which was won by American Levi Leipheimer.
The Tour ended in perfect timing as I can only only handle a few hours a week of television and Shark Week kicked off this evening on the Discovery Channel. In celebration of Shark Week, here are a few things you probably don’t know about sharks:
- In 1957, after a series of shark attacks, the South African government declared war on sharks and war ships dropped underwater bombs in an effort to kill sharks, but it didn’t work and the attacks continued.
- In ancient Hawaii, law breaking prisoners were forced to fight hungry sharks. To keep a level playing field the prisoners were armed only with a sharks tooth.
- On average there are 4.8 un-provoked shark attacks per year. So, shark attacks are not as common as one might think.
- The Great White shark is the world’s largest predatory species of fish, reaching lengths up-to 20 ft and weighing up to 5,000 lbs.
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