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Amazing
Facts
- Coins
can last for hundred of years before they are too worn out to
use. But most dollar bills last only a year and a half.
- Falling
coconuts kill 150 people a year, making them ten times
more dangerous than sharks, says British travel insurer Club Direct.
- Dance
crazes of the 1960s and 1970s included dances called the Monkey,
the Bird and Pony, the Duck and the Camel Walk.
- The
melting point of gold is over a thousand degrees centigrade.
- You
can dissolve gold with a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric
acid.
- In
Sapporo, Japan, the price of a single melon at the Mitsukoshi
departmental store is $ 1,174.
- The
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, seven days of the week, seven
colours of the spectrum, the seven virtues, the seven deadly sins,
sailing the seven seas ... throughout the ages, all over the world,
seven has been considered a special number.
- In
Japanese culture, the number seven has great significance
- the Japanese celebrate the seventh day after a baby's birth,
and mourn the seventh day and seventh week following a death.
- Vaseline
is actually a sticky oil by-product which is formerly known as
rod wax.
Interesting
Articles
In
science fiction, people talk about travelling through wormholes.
Do they really exist? -Matthew Gardner, Spokane, Washington
William
A. Hiscock, a professor of physics and the director of the NASA/Montana
Space Grant Consortium at Montana State University, answers:
Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels through space and time
that connect distant parts of the universe. Einstein's theory of
relativity describes space-time as curved, like the skin of an apple.
Just as an ant traversing the apple could take a shortcut through
a wormhole, an astronaut could use a space-time wormhole to travel
light-years of distance, or years of time, in a single step. So
far wormholes are known only as mathematical solutions to Einstein's
equations. Wormholes large enough for a starship, a person or even
an atom, are unlikely to exist. Miscroscopic wormholes, much smaller
than a proton, are more plausible.. In some modern theories of gravity,
subatomic space looks like a foaming sea of tiny wormholes, forming
and disappearing every instant.
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