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Valuable and Interesting Facts About Science

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Nevertheless some of the famous scientists might forget is that they got into their fields because of some popular science movement in the first place, be it the Apollo missions, a computer science program on PBS etc.

With this in mind, here are just amazing things that we have come to learn thanks to the progress of science. It’s this sort of knowledge that’s inspired us to learn more every day and it’s our deepest hope that something similar might happen to you as well.

Valuable and Interesting Facts About Science

  • The word “Scientist” first appeared in 1833.
  • Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg because the protein which makes egg shells have is only produced by hens.
  • 41 new species are discovered by scientists every single day.
  • Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
  • Scientists can turn peanut butter into the diamond.
  • Scientists have developed a microparticle-filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so
    we can live without breathing.
  • The World’s oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.
  • Earthquakes turn water into gold.
  • A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
  • Eating salmon helps hair grow faster.
  • During photosynthesis,plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can’t see.
  • Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
  • If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
  • You can start a fire with ice.
  • Researchers believe the first human case of HIV was in Kinshasa, Congo, around 1920.
  • The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.
  • Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
  • Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
  • The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
  • Humans share 50%of their DNA with bananas.
  • Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.
  • It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the light to travel from the sun to the earth.
  • Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
  • The “smell of rain” is caused by bacteria called actinomycetes.
  • The Colour of a mirror is slightly Green. You can see this if you look at a mirror in another mirror..the colour
    down the “mirror tunnel” shifts to green.
  •  The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
  • DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
  • The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
  • The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
  • Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

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Facts about Constellations

Facts about James Watt

Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln

  • Lincoln suffered depression and avoided carrying knives, fearing he would use it on himself.
  • Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
  • Lincoln’s assassin was a famous actor and Lincoln himself was a fan of him.
  • Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of his father’s
    killer, John Wilkes Booth.
  • Lincoln was the first major leader in the U.S. to feel that women should be allowed to vote.
  • Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost just once in 300 matches.
  • Abraham Lincoln Created The Secret Service The Day He Was Shot.
  • Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
  • Abraham Lincoln dreamt of his assassination before it happened. Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.
  • In 1876, a gang of Chicago counterfeiters attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body from his tomb and request a US$200,000 ransom.
  • Lincoln personally test-fired rifles outside the White House.
  • He was the only president to have a patent: Lincoln invented a device to free steamboats that ran aground.
  • Lincoln was the first president to sport a beard while serving in office. He was the tallest U.S president at 6’4″.
  • He was a big animal lover, but he wouldn’t hunt or fish. If he were alive today, Lincoln would be running an animal shelter.
  • He never belonged to an organized church. Lincoln read the Bible daily, but he never joined an organized church in his lifetime
  • Lincoln felt as the leader of the nation’s military, the president should be fighting in the Civil War but obviously, couldn’t because of his duties.
  • Lincoln risked his life while fulfilling his duties as commander-in-chief of the American military.

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People who changed the World

History of Slavery in the United States

Fast facts about Inventions and Inventors
 Amazing and Interesting facts about Black History Month

Difference Between Sensex and Nifty

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  1. The First difference between Sensex and Nifty is that the Sensex is an “index”. An index is basically an indicator. It gives you a general idea about whether most of the stocks have gone up or most of the stocks have gone down. The Sensex is an indicator of all the major companies of the BSE. Whereas the Nifty is an indicator of all the major companies of the NSE.
  2. The second difference between Sensex and Nifty is that if the Sensex goes up, it means that the prices of the stocks of most of the major companies on the BSE have gone up. If the Sensex goes down, this tells you that the stock price of most of the major stocks on the BSE has gone down. Just like the Sensex represents the top stocks of the BSE, the Nifty represents the top stocks of the NSE.
  3. The third difference between Sensex and Nifty is that  BSE is the Bombay Stock Exchange and the NSE is the National Stock Exchange. The BSE and the NSE is situated at Mumbai. These are the major stock exchanges in the country. There are other stock exchanges like the Calcutta Stock Exchange etc. but they are not as popular as the BSE and the NSE. Most of the stock trading in the country is done though the BSE & the NSE.
  4. The fourth difference between Sensex and Nifty is that Besides Sensex and the Nifty, there are many other indexes. There is an index that gives you an idea about whether the mid-cap stocks go up and down. This is called the “BSE Mid-cap Index”. There is an index for the metal stocks. There is an index for the FMCG stocks. There is an index for the automobile stocks etc.
  5. The fifth difference between Sensex and Nifty is that the Bombay Stock Exchange is considered to be the oldest stock exchange in India, as well as in Asia. While the BSE was founded in 1875, it was in 1992 that the NSE came into existence. It was only after the launch of Sensex, in 1986, that Nifty came into existence.
  6. The sixth difference between Sensex and Nifty is that Nifty is more broad-based than Sensex, as the former consists of more listed companies. Nifty is a combination of ‘N’, meaning national, and ‘ifty’, meaning fifty. On the other hand, Sensex refers to the sensitivity index of the BSE.
  7. The seventh difference between Sensex and Nifty is that Nifty comprises of about 50 scripts from various sectors. On the other hand, Sensex of the BSE comprises of 30 scripts from various sectors.
  8. The eighth difference between Sensex and Nifty is that Sensex has gone up – What does that mean?  Sensex has gone up by 100 points and Nifty has gone up by 50 points. This basically means on an average the 30 shares in BSE and 50 Shares in NSE have performed well. Individual stock prices should have increased and decreased. But the majority of the stock prices in the list of 30 for BSE and 50 for NSE have increased.

Also, Read:

Most Interesting Facts About Stock Market

Stock Exchange – An Organized Market for Purchase and Sale

Things You Need to Know About Mutual Funds

A Company – Definition, Features, Types and Companies Act

Fascinating Facts About Coffee

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Facts About Coffee

Here are some fascinating facts about Coffee which is very interesting. The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day. Coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.

Fascinating Facts About Coffee

  • Coffee is most effective if consumed between 9:30 am and 11:30 am.
  • Instant Coffee was invented by a man called George Washington around 1910.
  • Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee significantly improves blood flow.
  • There’s a Coffee Shop in France where not saying “hello” and “please” makes your coffee more expensive.
  • New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
  • In the beginning, Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.
  • The word “coffee” comes from the Arabic for “wine of the bean”.
  • Arabs were the first to cultivate coffee trees on the Arabian Peninsula. Arabs typically roasted and boiled coffee, or qahwa, which is Arabic for “the wine of Islam.
  • The world’s first coffee house opened in 1475 in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
  • Starbucks coffee shops use over 93 million gallons of milk per year. This would be enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
  • The most expensive coffee in the world is Indonesia’s Kopi Luwak or civet coffee. It is made from coffee beans that have been eaten, partially digested, and then excreted by a weasel-like animal called the Asian palm civet.
  • Coffee trees are cultivated in over 70 countries, mostly in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
  • Do you know fascinating facts about coffee that Tea was more popular than coffee in America until King George the III’s Stamp Act of 1767 increased taxes. The result was the Boston Tea Party, a rebellion in which Bostonians dumped the British East India tea cargos into a harbor. From that point, coffee became America’s national drink and was emotionally linked with its revolution.
  • Coffee was banned three times in three different cultures: once in Mecca in the 16th century, once when Charles II in Europe banned the drink in an attempt to quiet an ongoing revolution, and once when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Germany in 1677 because he was concerned people were spending too much money on the drink.

Also, Read:

Amazing facts about Chocolate

Unknown facts about Strawberry
Benefits of Curd 

Misconceptions About Evolution

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Misconceptions About Evolution

Evolution helps us to understand the history of life. While evolution is very widely accepted, many people hold to misconceptions about it. This list should help to dispel some of those myths.

Evolution is a theory about the origin of life

The theory of evolution primarily deals with the manner in which life has changed after its origin. While science is interested in the origins of life but these are not issues covered in the area of evolution. What is known is that regardless of the start, at some point life began to branch off. Evolution is, therefore, dedicated to the study of those processes.

Must Read: Ecology

Organisms are always getting better

While it is a fact that natural selection weeds out unhealthy genes from the gene pool, there are many cases where an imperfect organism has survived. Some examples of this are fungi, sharks, crayfish, and mosses – these have all remained essentially the same over a great period of time. These organisms are all sufficiently adapted to their environment to survive without improvement.

Evolution means that life changed ‘by chance’

In fact, natural selection is not random. Many aquatic animals need speed to survive and reproduce – the creatures with that ability are more suited to their environment and are more likely to survive natural selection. In turn, they will produce more offspring with the same traits and the cycle continues.

Natural selection involves organisms ‘trying’ to adapt

Organisms do not “try” to adapt – it is natural selection that enables various members of a group to survive and reproduce. Genetic adaptation is entirely outside of the power of the developing organism.

Also Read: Plant – Living Organism

Natural selection gives organisms what they ‘need.’

Natural selection has no “intelligence” – it cannot tell what a species needs. If a population has genetic variants that are more suited to their environment, they will reproduce more in the next generation and the population will evolve. If a genetic variant is not present, the population will most likely do – or it will survive with little evolutionary change.

Evolution is ‘just’ a theory

Scientifically speaking, a theory is a well substantiated idea that explains aspects of the natural world. Unfortunately other definitions of theory cause a great deal of confusion in the non-scientific world when dealing with the sciences.

Evolution is a Theory in Crisis

The minutiae of the process are vigorously debated which can cause anti-evolutionists to believe that the theory is in crisis. Evolution is sound science and is treated as such by scientists worldwide.

Gaps in the Fossil Record Disprove Evolution

Actually, many transitional fossils do exist – for example, there are fossils of transitional organisms between modern birds and their dinosaur ancestors, as well as whales and their land mammal ancestors. There are many transitional forms that have not been preserved, but that is simply because some organisms do not fossilize well or exist in conditions that do not allow for the process of fossilization. Science predicts that there will be gaps in the record for many evolutionary changes.

Have a Look at: Biodiversity

Evolutionary Theory is Incomplete

Evolutionary theory is like all of the other sciences in this respect. Science is always trying to improve our knowledge. At present, evolution is the only well-supported explanation for all of the life’s diversity.

The Theory is Flawed

Science is an extremely competitive field – if any flaws were discovered in evolutionary theory they would be quickly corrected. All of the alleged flaws that creationists put forth have been investigated careful by scientists and they simply do not hold water. They are usually based on misunderstandings of the theory or misrepresentation of the evidence.

Evolution is not science because it is not observable

Evolution is observable and testable. Astronomers can obviously not physically touch the objects they study

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Most Biologists have rejected Darwinism

Scientists do not reject Charles Darwin’s theories, they have modified it over time as more knowledge has been discovered. Darwin considered that evolution proceeds at a deliberate, slow pace – but in fact it has now been discovered that it can proceed at a rapid pace under some circumstances. There has not been, so far, a credible challenge to the basic principles of Darwin’s theory. Scientists have improved and expanded on Darwin’s original theory of natural selection – it has not been rejected, it has been added to.

Evolution Leads to Immoral Behavior

All animal species have a set of behaviors that they share with other members of their species. Slugs act like slugs, dogs act like dogs, and humans act like humans. It is preposterous to presume that a child will begin to behave like another creature when they discover that they are related to them. It is nonsensical to link evolution to immoral or inappropriate behavior.

Evolution Supports “Might Makes Right”

Yet a great deal of knowledge can be gained through multiple lines of study. This is true also of evolution. It is also true that there are many mechanisms of evolution that can be, and are studied through direct experimentation as with other sciences.

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Fossils

Erosion

Shocking facts about Acid Rain

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