Facts in "Plants" Category
#2699 - Plants Fact     1  Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone. |
| #2700 - Plants Fact 0 On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics. |
| #2701 - Plants Fact 2 The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick. |
| #2702 - Plants Fact 6 Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely. |
| #2703 - Plants Fact 1 Tiny dust particles surround a comet. They are swept into a long tail by the solar wind, which consists of subatomic particles speeding from the sum at speed of hundred of miles per second. |
| #2704 - Plants Fact 3 To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky. |
| #2705 - Plants Fact 5 Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the earth. |
| #2706 - Plants Fact 0 A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 time more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the sun that the man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the sun. |
| #2707 - Plants Fact 0 A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes. |
| #2708 - Plants Fact 2 A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years. |
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