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• Researchers at Georgia Tech studied the urination habits of animals at the local zoo, as well as a variety of domestic animals, including dogs, goats, cows, gorillas, and elephants. What they discovered is that most mammals weighing over 6.6 lbs take about 21 seconds to urinate from start to finish, whether it’s an elephant emptying its 5-gallon bladder or a cat relieving its teaspoon-size bladder. They called this “the universal law of urination” and the research won them an Ig Nobel award in 2015. • Most trees have leaves that can photosynthesize using just one side of the leaf, but the quaking aspen can photosynthesize from both sides of the leaf. This means it can grow more quickly than other species. • The diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years from side to side. If the Milky Way was reduced to the size of the continental U.S., our solar system would be about the size of a quarter, and Earth would be the size of a grain of sand in the middle of the quarter. • The Voyager space probe was launched in 1977 and is travelling at about 38,000 mph. It reached the edge of our solar system 35 years after being launched. Information sent from the probe, travelling at the speed of light, takes over 16 hours to reach Earth. • Under their stripes, zebras have black skin. Polar bears also have black skin, and their fur is not white, but is actually colorless, but it reflects white light. Big cats such as leopards and cheetahs have skin colors that match their stripes and spots. • The AR in “AR-15” rifle does not stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle” but stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. ...continued
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• On Aug. 25, 1835, the start of a six-part series announcing the discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper. Sales of the paper soared as readers believed the tales about unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids. Even Yale University scientists were fooled. • On Aug. 24, 1873, William Henry Jackson takes the first photographs of Colorado's elusive Mount of the Holy Cross, providing reliable proof of its existence. The phenomenon formed after thousands of years of erosion of two deep ravines, which by sheltering winter snow from the sun created a perfect cross. • On Aug. 19, 1909, the first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After the unstable rock and tar track caused the deaths of six people that day, the surface was replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks. • On Aug. 21, 1920, Daphne Milne, wife of writer A.A. Milne, gives birth to a son, whom they name Christopher Robin Milne. He would be immortalized in A.A. Milne's books "Winniethe-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner." • On Aug. 20, 1975, Viking 1, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Mars. On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down on the Chryse Planitia region, becoming the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars. • On Aug. 22, 1989, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers becomes the first pitcher in major league history to record 5,000 career strikeouts. Ryan would go on to compile 5,714 strikeouts, a record that still stands. • On Aug. 23, 1999, seven people die in New York from what turns out to be the first cases of West Nile virus in the United States. West Nile virus, previously found only in Uganda and the Middle East, had been contracted by birds and spread by mosquitoes. © 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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• Experiments studying the structural integrity of ice were begun. Icebergs proved to be too unstable. Pure ice was brittle and fractured easily. Then scientists experimented with mixtures of ice and wood pulp. Their tests were very promising: ice made with as little as 4% wood pulp was as strong as concrete. The composition was named pykrete. • Pyke delivered a slab of pykrete to Allied Commander Lord Mountbatten, who took it to Winston Churchill. According to the story, Mountbatten arrived as Churchill was soaking in a hot bath. He plopped the chunk of ice into the hot water, and they were both astonished to see that the exterior layer of ice melted away, leaving a layer of wood shavings as insulation which protected the rest of the ice and prevented it from melting. • Next, Mountbatten took a block of pykrete to a demonstration, placing one block of regular ice next to it, and then shooting both blocks with his service pistol. The pure ice shattered, but the bullet ricocheted off the block of pykrete.
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• Further experiments with pykrete were performed in London in an underground meat storage locker. Research showed that Canadian spruce was superior to Scotch pine and that a ratio of 14% wood pulp to 86% ice was best. Pykrete could be machined like wood and cast into shapes like metal. • Geoffrey Pyke was given all the funding he needed to build an experimental aircraft carrier out of pykrete. The endeavor was dubbed Project Habakkuk, after a prophet in the Bible who has a book in the Old Testament named after him. One verse reads: “Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” (Habakkuk 1:5). • Canada was chosen for the work due to its cold climate. A scale model was built in Lake Patricia in Alberta, with conscientious objectors providing the labor. It measured 60 by 30 feet, weighed 1,000 tons and was kept frozen by a one-horsepower motor. It took a month to construct. • The requirements for the full-size vessel were stringent: it had to have a range of 7,000 miles, withstand the largest waves, and be torpedo-proof, which meant that the hull had to be at least 40 ft. thick. The deck had to be 2,000 ft. long. • When the time came to build a full-scale ship in 1943, a couple of issues got in the way. First was the difficulty in steering the ship, as the 40-foot thick ice prevented the installation of a working rudder. Furthermore, by this time better aircraft had been constructed that had a much longer range and therefore fewer air craft carriers were needed. In addition, by then the war was beginning to turn in favor of the Allies. Eventually, the idea was scrapped. • Still, it took three successive hot summers for the pykrete ship to completely melt in Alberta.
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• When Italian knights were training, they would practice in a circular ring called a “garosella” with each mounted man riding in a circle trying to knock the others off their horses using their lances. Later, rotating platforms were built, with wooden horses on top. Novice knights would ride the stationary horses on the moving platform, trying to hit moving targets being twirled by the serfs. These platforms became popular at fairs, where young lads would try their luck. The word “garosella” went into the French language as “carousel,” now a popular feature at county fairs. • The French word for “field” is “champ.” Any knight fought on a field of rivals was called a “champion” later shortened to “champ.” A royal king who needed to hire a knight to fight on his behalf would hire a “champion” meaning “a fighter.” The same root word gives us “campus” and “camp.” • The original “grape” was a curved knife, similar to a carpet knife, which was used to gouge through the joints in armor in order to injure the knight. The same root word gives us “grappling hook.” In between wars, the grape knife was used to slice clusters of “wineberries” off the vine, and eventually “wineberries” became known as “grapes.” • The word “salute” originates with the Latin word meaning “safety” or “salvation.” The origin of the hand motion is the lifting of a knight’s visor to show his face, indicating he does not intend to attack. • In a competition between two archers, if the match ended up tied, the umpire would call out “Jeu parti” which is French for “game divided.” This phrase came into English as the word “jeopardy.” At this point, each archer would have one more shot, called the “upshot,” to settle the match.
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• The French word “tourner” means “to turn.” When knights were working to sharpen their skills, one of the things they needed to do was Answer: Dell. to be able to direct their horse with their knees A VERY LARGE NUMBER while both of their hands were occupied with •lances Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 and shields. To that end, an obstacle he was asked to come up with a name for to a course would be set up where the knight was very large number: the numeral one, followed guide his horse through a maze of posts withby a hundred zeros. He asked his two young out using his hands. the practice of turnnephews what nameThus they would suggest. ing became a “tournament.” • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name • The dynastyAofcartoon Persia,strip which is now out Parthian of the funnies. character part of Iran, employed mounted archers. of named Barney was very popular. MiltonOne chose Barney’s last name number. their war tactics wasfor to the feign a full-on retreat, then announced turn to unleash a barrage of the arrows •and Kasner the new name for big onnumber their pursuers. was calledthe a “Parthian in his nextThis book, altering spelling. nowLarry calledPage “a parting shot.”Brin •shot” Sixtywhich years islater, and Sergey developed new “etiquette” internet search engine. • The French aword means “to Other stick” search engines searched each webpage anda or “to attach.” When troops were training, ranked them according to how many times a white piece of paper would be attached to a specific term appeared on them, but Page and post used for similar Brinand designed theirtarget searchpractice, engine to searchtofora bullseye target. In the barracks, a white the specific term and then find out how poster many would stuck to that the wall detailing the page, day’s links be there were led back to that orders. At fancy diplomatic events, a small which resulted in a better search engine. hand-out would they be passed detailing • They decided neededaround a name that who was attending and where people to reflected how many websites the were search sit. Thus was “etiquette” evolved to engine searching. They from took archery the name of Edward very large number, only manners. TheKasner’s same root word gives us “ticket.” they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being • The French word “blanc” means “white” and spelled exactly the same way the cartoon “point blanc” means to “aim at the white” recharacter Barney spelled his last name. What’s ferring to the white at ofbottom the bullseye, back when it called? (Answer of page) the center ofCOMPUTER an archery target was white. ToFACTS day we call it being shot “point blank.” • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory • Aought targettoused for archery practice was origibe enough for anybody.” nally called a “butt” and a person was “the • Moore’s Law states that computerwho performance butt of a every joke” 18 wasto therefore theand target the doubles 24 months, everof since fun. 1971, this has been true. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol.
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