People want to create a time zone for the moon. Why? Because of the effect of gravity on time.
On the Moon gravity is less and time flows faster. Only by 0.02 seconds per year, but enough for a lunar radio telescope.
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People want to create a time zone for the moon. Why? Because of the effect of gravity on time. On the Moon gravity is less and time flows faster. Only by 0.02 seconds per year, but enough for a lunar radio telescope.
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List of incidents of space debris falling to Earth. For example, on March 8 of this year, a piece of battery that had been jettisoned from the ISS crashed into a man’s home in Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_fall_incidents
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DNS-over-Wikipedia. There are sites that fight censorship and constantly change their address. The Pirate Bay or Sci-Hub, for example. This app will allow you to enter an address like sci-hub.idk, and it gets the last domain from Wikipedia.
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The famous Smirnoff vodka was founded by a former slave. Peter Smirnoff was born a slave peasant in Russian Empire, at 26 he got his freedom, at 29 he opened a small wine shop in Moscow.
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In 1973, one of the longest eclipses was to occur. But that wasn’t enough for the scientists. They used a prototype Concorde and fly along the shadow of the Moon. They ended up observing the eclipse for 74 minutes—10 times longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_30,_1973
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Countries are not just changing their time because of daylight saving time. In Morocco, the time zone changes for Ramadan. During this month, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink during the day. The time change makes it easy to fast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Morocco
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Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves. The game starts with White making one move, then Black makes two consecutive moves, White replies with three and so on.
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Atomic chess is a chess variant where all captures result in an “explosion” through which the capturing piece, captured piece, and all surrounding pieces of both colors other than pawns are removed from play.
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Despite the fact that Everest has already been conquered, there are still many mountains on Earth where people have not been able to climb (because the difficulty depends not only on the height). The list of the highest unclimbed mountains.
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The oceans have been studied worse than space. And here’s a good example. Deep-sea squid, 12 meters long (!). For the first time they were found in full form (before that only parts) only in 1988. Now there are only isolated cases of meeting with them.
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Boeing 747 crash in Amsterdam in 1992 - the plane had 2 engines fall off (!) and crashed into a house in the city.
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List of films considered the worst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst
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Hell icons are alleged icons with images of Devil hidden the painted layer. Also, the image of saints could include horns hidden under the paint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_icon Black Book video game has not only the very correct image of old Russian Empire but also an episode about Hell icons
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Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
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Many people know about the Spanish bullfight, where bulls are killed. But we don't talk much about another cruel Spanish pastime. Spain has their own breed of dogs for hunting and the belief that the more brutally you kill your dog, the more successful will be the hunt next year. Every year between 50,000 and 100,000 dogs are burned, hanged, and other medieval cruelties.
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Not all countries use the same calendar today.
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“McGrady’s intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book became a bestseller in 1969”
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“The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the airplane hijacking occurred outside normal office hours, which are 08:00–12:00 and 13:30–17:00 Monday to Friday”
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Good news! Humans have successfully wiped out one of the flu lines (Yamagata). Self-isolation during the coronavirus seems to have really worked, and some viruses didn’t survive it (flu cases dropped dramatically then too). |