How many Legos are there? Since the Lego Group began manufacturing blocks in 1949, more than 189 billion pieces in 2,000 different shapes have been produced. This is enough for about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on Earth. How fast does glass crack? When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second. What does the word toboggan derive from? “Toboggan” is derived from the Algonquin language and loosely meant “instrument with which to drag a cord.” Can you catch a rainbow? A rainbow does not actually exist at a location in the sky, but rather is an optical phenomenon whose apparent position depends on the observers location. All raindrops refract and reflect the sunlight in the same way, but only the light from some raindrops reaches the observers eye. These raindrops are perceived to constitute the rainbow by that observer. The position of a rainbow in the sky is always in the opposite direction of the Sun with respect to the observer, and the interior is always slightly brighter than the exterior. Did soccer have the first melees? Soccer gave us the term melee. It means a confused mass, which was what the playing field looked like in Europe in the Middle Ages. Towns competed using teams of up to a hundred players, with the goals a half-mile or so apart.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:56:05 +0000
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