DID YOU KNOW THAT?
1. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
2. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber. (try it outside)
3. . At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
4. Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
5. Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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They are very interesting facts. It would be nice to investigate further. Try to find more. Here are a set of questions that come to my mind:
ReplyDelete* Do you know what it means by 4.5 pounds of sunlight? How does one weigh sunlight?
* How far does a typical air molecule travel before it collides with another molecule? Do you know what Brownian motion is?
* What makes Earth loose 13 seconds a century?