Tag: Facts

Difference between Grounding & Earthing

Grounding and earthing are similar terms. Still, these are having many differences. GROUNDING Grounding means connecting the live part (it means the part which carries current under normal condition) to the earth for example neutral of power transformer. Grounding is done for the protections of power system equipment and to provide an effective return path from the machine to the… Read more →

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10 Fascinating Facts

More than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesisers, like phytoplankton and seaweed. In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in the world to deliver its food to outer space, they paid a million dollars to send a salami pizza to the International Space Station (ISS). Beekeepers wear white beekeeping suits because white is the least… Read more →

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10 Cool Facts

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. A B-25 bomber aeroplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly. The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer. The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as… Read more →

10 Interesting Facts

A wine that has a musty smell, similar to wet cardboard or mold, may mean that the bottle is “corked” (the bottle has a contaminated cork. Muscles absorb alcohol faster than fat. As a result, people who have more muscles and less body fat have higher alcohol tolerance. The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -89 Celsius (-129 Fahrenheit)… Read more →

10 Interesting Knowledge Facts

Los Angeles is the first major city in the world to synchronize all its traffic lights. Nearly 4,400 lights across 469 miles receive real-time updates about traffic flow to make second-by-second adjustments. The system limits congestion by up to 16% while also dramatically reducing idling time. Norway hires sherpas from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have… Read more →

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YOU ARE GETTING OLD!!!! This site is awesome…

As an example, you can check out your life statistics on the You’re getting old! https://you.regettingold.com

Life stats reveal the number of breaths or heartbeats, the number of Moon revolutions since your birth, or the total number of candles on birthday cakes etc.

Making you think about the value of time😏

Some Tech History

1. When was the first website created? The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August 1991: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. 2. Who wrote the first computer program? Augusta Ada King, Countess of… Read more →

Another 9 Tech Fun Facts

1. How do capacitive touch works? They work with anything that holds an electrical charge – including human skin. (Yes, we are comprised of atoms with positive and negative charges!) Capacitive touch screens are constructed from materials like copper or indium tin oxide that store electrical charges in an electrostatic grid of tiny wires, each smaller than a human hair. There are two main… Read more →