Amazing Facts

The human body contains enough carbon to make 9,000 pencils. The human body contains 18% carbon, so, a 70 kg adult contains 13 kg carbon. If we assume a pencil has about 1,5 gr of graphite in it, that's close to 9000 pencils. Or if you prefer something more upscale, the human body can produce between 50 and 100 diamonds. In fact, there is a US company that extracts carbon from cremated bodies and turns it into diamonds. Chicago-based company LifeGem was the first US company to develop a way to extract carbon from human remains and turn it into diamonds at a cushy profit. انسانی جسم میں 9،000 پنسل بنانے کے لئے کافی کاربن موجود ہے۔  انسانی جسم میں 18 فیصد کاربن ہوتا ہے ، لہذا ، 70 کلوگرام بالغ میں 13 کلوگرام کاربن ہوتا ہے۔  اگر ہم فرض کریں کہ اس میں کسی پنسل میں تقریبا 1،5 جی آر گریفائٹ ہے ، تو یہ قریب 9000 پنسل ہے۔  یا اگر آپ کسی اعلی درجے کی چیز کو ترجیح دیتے ہیں تو ، انسانی جسم 50 اور 100 کے درمیان ہیرے تیار کرسکتا ہے۔  دراصل ، ایک امریکی کمپنی ہے جو جنازے دار لاشوں سے کاربن نکالت...

In an excellent case of "here's a sentence you won't read every day", Britney Spears has emerged as an unlikely figurehead in the fight against Somali pirates. According to reports, Britney's hits, including Oops! I Did It Again and Baby One More Time, are being employed by British naval officers in an attempt to scare off pirates along the east coast of Africa. Perhaps nothing else – not guns, not harpoons – is quite as intimidating as the sound of Ms Spears singing "Ooh baby baby!" Merchant naval officer Rachel Owens explained the tactics to Metro: "Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most. These guys can't stand western culture or music, making Britney's hits perfect. As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney, they move on as quickly as they can." Britney is currently preparing to release her eighth album, Britney Jean, in December. It follows the single Work Bitch, although...

Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him. Following its capture, New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized the mission. The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam. To legitimatize Dutch claims to New Amsterdam, Dutch governor Peter Minuit formally purchased Manhattan from the local tribe from which it derives it name in 1626. According to legend, the Manhattans–Indians of Algonquian linguistic stock–agreed to give up the island in ex...

The Queen Alexandra Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) is the largest living butterfly, with a wingspan that stretches almost a foot across. One the rarest butterflies in the world, it's found only in the rain forests of New Guinea. The females, which have a chocolate brown body and wings, boast a wingspan of 11 to 12 inches (28 to 31 centimeters) The males are smaller they grow to only 6.7 to 7.4 inches (17 to 19 cm) but they're much more colorful: they sport a bright yellow abdomen topped with electric green and aquamarine wings. Queen Alexandra Birdwings take about four months to morph from an egg to an adult butterfly. After that, these monster butterflies usually live for another three months, which is actually quite long, considering that most butterflies live for only a month. During its lifetime, a female Queen Alexandra Birdwings lays only 27 eggs. That low egg output, along with the volcanic eruption of Mount Lamington in 1951, which destroyed large areas of the insec...

The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the German annexation of Sudetenland as outlined by the Munich Agreement. Adolf Hitler justified the invasion by the purported suffering of the ethnic Germans living in these regions. The Sudetenland annexation by Nazi Germany was detrimental to the future defense of crippled Czechslovakia as the extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area. Following the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938, the conquest and breakup of Czechoslovakia became Hitler's next ambition. The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany that began on 1 October 1938 left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak, and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation. Moreover, a small northeastern part of the borderland region known as Zaolzie was occupied and annexed to Poland ostensibly to "protect" the local ethnic Polish community and as a result of previous territorial claims (Czech-Polis...

The human body is a marvel of engineering, with thousands of interrelated parts. Some are tiny but still very important. Let's look at four of the smallest parts of the human body: the smallest muscle, the smallest bone, the smallest organ, and the smallest blood vessel. The stapedius, in your middle ear, measures about 1mm in size (or 1/26 of an inch). Connected to the stapes bone, it contracts to pull back the stapes and help protect your inner ear from loud noises. The stapedius also contracts to keep your own voice from sounding too loud in your head. Conveniently, that would be the stapes. It is one of three tiny bones in the middle ear that convey sound from the outer ear to the inner ear. Collectively called the ossicles, these bones are individually known as the malleus, incus, and stapes. Those are Latin words for the shapes the bones resemble: a hammer, anvil, and stirrup. You'll find the pineal gland near the center of the brain, in a groove between the hemispheres. ...