♠ The heaviest apple weighed 1.849 kg (4 lb 1 oz) and was grown and picked by Chisato Iwasaki at his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan October 24, 2005.
• Clothes that are dried outside DO smell better because of a process called photolysis. What happens is this: sunlight breaks down compounds in the laundry that cause odor, such as perspiration and body oils.
• Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
• Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
• Some early TV screens did emit excessive X-rays, as did computer monitors, but that was fixed long ago. Doctors suggest that at worst, sitting too close might cause some temporary eye fatigue—the same for reading with insufficient light—but no permanent damage, no matter what your mother claimed.
• A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state.
• STASI, the East German secret police organization, devised a devilishly clever way to prevent someone from giving them the slip during the Cold War: they managed to synthesize the scent of a female dog in heat, which they applied to the shoes of the person under surveillance. Then they simply had a male dog follow the scent.
♣ In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground. ♣ Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
♣ In 25 square milimeters of skin there lies 3.6 meters of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 2.7 meters of blood vessels.
♣ The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.
♣ The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.
♣ In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
♣ Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
♣ Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
♣ Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
♣ 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
[ deci aproximativ 600.000 de celule citind tot articolul, inclusiv asta :) (cronometrat) ]
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway - Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
♣ A brown dwarf is a very small, dark object, with a mass less than 1/10 that of the Sun. They are 'failed stars', globules of gas that have shrunk under gravity, but failed to ignite and shine as stars.♣ The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
♣ A full moon always rises at sunset.
♣ If the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.
♣ In 1980, Namco released PAC-MAN, the most popular video game (or arcade game) of all time. The original name was going to be PUCK MAN, but executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the P in the games marquee and labeling.
ROMANIA - DATE GENERALE
Hotarele României însumează în total 3.149,9 km. Două treimi din acestea (2.064,4 km) sunt determinate de Dunăre şi de râurile Prut şi Tisa sau urmează linia ţărmului Mării Negre, în timp ce o treime (1.085,5 km) reprezintă graniţa terestră. Apele teritoriale române se întind până la 12 mile marine în largul Mării Negre.
Este de 238.391 kmp, comparabilă cu cea a Marii Britanii, ceea ce situează România pe locul 80 în lume şi pe locul 13 în Europa ca mărime.
Ready to find out that:♦ A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days.
♦ A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.
♦ The first "technology" corporation to move into California's Silicon Valley was Hewlett-Packard, in 1938. Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage, with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney Studios for use in making Fantasia.
♦ Rain contains vitamin B12.
♦ The first man-made item to exceed the speed of sound is the bull whip or leather whip. When the whip is snapped, the knotted end makes a "crack" or popping noise. It is actually causing a mini sonic boom as it exceeds the speed of sound.
♣ A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
si aici iata ca trebuie sa-mi pun eu problema, ca daca am folosi un monstru de veyron ????
☻ Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
☻ Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
☻ Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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