Amazing Facts

1. 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.
2. Falling coconuts kill 150 people a year, making them ten times more dangerous than sharks, says British travel insurer Club Direct.
3. Dance crazes of the 1960s and 1970s included dances called the Monkey, the Bird and Pony, the Duck and the Camel Walk.
4. The melting point of gold is over a thousand degrees centigrade.
5. You can dissolve gold with a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acid.
6. In Sapporo, Japan, the price of a single melon at the Mitsukoshi departmental store is $ 1,174.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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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