Facts in "Plants" Category
#2779 - Plants Fact     0  About 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year. The largest known meteorite was found at Grootfontein in Namibia, southwest Africa, in 1920. It is 9 feet (2.75m) long and 8 feet (2.43m) wide. |
| #2780 - Plants Fact 2 According to experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium. |
| #2781 - Plants Fact 2 Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999. |
| #2782 - Plants Fact 1 The whirling cloud, a flat cloud hovering over the peak of an extinct volcano, Mount Jirinaj in Indonesia, affected by hot air rising from the crater, spins swiftly around and around. |
| #2783 - Plants Fact 1 The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it. |
| #2784 - Plants Fact 2 The earth rotates on its axis more slowly in March than in September. |
| #2785 - Plants Fact 1 The first man-made insecticide was DDT. |
| #2786 - Plants Fact 0 We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an "interglacial period." Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again. |
| #2787 - Plants Fact 0 Billiards great, Henry Lewis once sank 46 balls in a row. |
| #2788 - Plants Fact -1 Golf-great Billy Casper turned golf pro during the Korean War while serving in the Navy. Casper was assigned to operate and build golf driving ranges for the Navy in the San Diego area. |
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