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Friday, March 19, 2010
Interesting Facts about DIAMONDS
Most diamonds are over three billion years old, two-thirds the age of the Earth. There are a few "youngsters," though, which are only 100 million years old. Most diamonds were formed more than 100 miles below the surface of the Earth, some from...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Interesting Facts about SNOW
The largest piece of ice to fall to earth was an ice block 6 meters (20 ft) across that fell in Scotland on 13 August 1849. The largest hailstone recorded fell on 14 April 1986 in Bangladesh weighing 1kg (2.25lbs). The hailstorm reportedly killed 92...
Interesting Facts about WIND
The windiest place in the world is Port Martin, Antarctica, which has an average wind speed over a year of 64 km/h (40 mph). It experiences gale force 8 winds for over a hundred days a year! The most violent tornado in recorded history struck on 18 March 1925, killing 689 people, injuring 1980 others, destroying 4 towns, severely damaging 6 others...
Interesting Facts about RAIN
Exmouth in Western Australia received some 322mm of rain in the first week of June 2002. 305mm of this total falling in just 24 hours on June 4. A rainbow was visible for 6 hours (from 9am to 6pm) at Wetherby, Yorkshire (UK) on 14 March 1994. This is...
Interesting Facts about TEMPERATURE
On January 22 1943, the temperature at Spearfish, South Dakota (USA) rose from minus 20°C (minus 4°F) at 7.30am to 7°C (45°F) at 7.32 am (a 27°C rise in just 2 minutes!). Temperatures dipped below freezing in the north central U.S. Five cities in North...
Interesting Facts about PLANETS
Uranus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.The three most recently discovered planets...
Interesting Facts about STARS
There are more stars than all of the grains of sand on earth.You can see stars from the bottom of a well even in day light.Stars with really strong gravity cause themselves to become smaller and smaller and eventually turn into black holes.Stars come...
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