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Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: Features
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
All the gold produced in the past 500 years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
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.
There are 611 sidewalk squares from Copper Beech to University Manor.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river 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.
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 '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100 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 800 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.
All the gold produced in the past 500 years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
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.
There are 611 sidewalk squares from Copper Beech to University Manor.
A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river 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.
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 '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100 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 800 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.
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CJB
posted 11/02/09 @ 10:17 PM EST
i would love to know how the 611 sidewalks squares one was found out. bored much or just the beginning to a crazy night?
dgs
posted 11/04/09 @ 10:33 PM EST
ditch the did you knows and put more rants in the paper
james
posted 11/06/09 @ 11:44 PM EST
i counted the squares they are actually from andrew bodenheimers front steps at copper beech to my front door at university manor
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