Facts in "Plants" Category
#2729 - Plants Fact     0  A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state. |
| #2730 - Plants Fact 6 If you stand in the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime. |
| #2731 - Plants Fact 3 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. |
| #2732 - Plants Fact 3 Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision. |
| #2733 - Plants Fact -3 On December 2, 1942, a nuclear chain reaction was achieved for the first time under the stands of the University of Chicago’s football stadium. The first reactor measured 30 feet wide, 32 feet long, and 21.5 feet high. It weighed 1,400 tons and contained 52 tons of uranium in the form of uranium metal and uranium oxide. Although the same process led to the massive energy release of the atomic bomb, the first artificially sustained nuclear reaction produced just enough energy to light a small flashlight. |
| #2734 - Plants Fact 2 A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. This is because the carbonation in the drink gets pockets of air stuck in the wrinkles of the raisin, which is light enough to be raised by this air. When it reaches the surface of the champagne, the bubbles pop, and the raisin sinks back to the bottom, starting the cycle over. |
| #2735 - Plants Fact 0 Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them. |
| #2736 - Plants Fact 4 Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. |
| #2737 - Plants Fact 2 Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. |
| #2738 - Plants Fact -2 The fastest moon in our solar system circles Jupiter once every seven hours - traveling at 70,400 miles per hour. |
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