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| Today is: Sunday January 28, 2001. |
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Trivia: Science &
Technologies |
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 107 incorrect medical procedures
will be performed by the end of the day today.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bolt of lighting can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second.
A creep is a metallurgical term for when something that is normally very strong bends
because of gravity. This happens to many metals at high temperatures, where they won't
melt but they will creep.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time
of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.
A downburst is a downward blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a
thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, since the wind can be as strong as an
F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground. It's not lifted
into the air and transported downwind.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise's car into a rover near Naples,
Italy, in 1980. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore--where a tree
blew over and killed him.
A full loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be
there in a jiffy!
 A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the sun's
surface.
A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the
length of England.
A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
A penny whistle has six finger holes.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer,
which occupied a city block.
A standard grave is 7'8 x 3'2 x 6.
A syzygy occurs when three atronomical bodies line up.
A two-bit moon is in its first quarter.
A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
About seven million cars are junked each year in the U.S.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only
source for diamonds to the world.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually
painting stripes on the state's highways and roads.
All snow crystals are hexagonal.
All the gold produced in the past five hundred years, if melted, could be compressed into
a 50-foot cube.
All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an
ocean liner.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
An inch of snow falling evenly on one acre of ground is equivalent to about 2715 gallons
of water.
Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its
surface tension.
Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated.
April is Earthquake Preparedness month. For a little added incentive, consider this- The
most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811 in New Madrid,
Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000
miles away.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred
percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid
contains as many as 50 million of them.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown
west.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover
Dam in 1933.
Did you know you share a birthday with at least nine other million people in the world?
During the time that the atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo,
New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors, were disqualified if they could
read. Illiteracy was a job requirement. The reason: the authorities did not want their
trash or other papers read.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10
years.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not have a full moon.
If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would
take around 3,000 years to count them all.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The
head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and six days, you would have produced enough sound
energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said computers in
the future may weigh no more than 5 tons.
In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell, created SPACEWARS, the first interactive computer
game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the
computer technology of the time, ASCII text characters were the 'graphics' and people
could only play the game on a device that took up the floorspace of a small house.
Iron nails cannot be used in aok because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It takes one fifteen-to-twenty-year-old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags.
It takes the insect-eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on its
prey.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the
decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
The Venus's flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger. |
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