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After his niece became extremely ill from spoiled milk, the powerful gangster reportedly lobbied aggressively for expiration dates to be placed on milk to ensure the safety of children and pregnant women.
The first calculations of Mount Everest did indeed show that it was 2,902 ft high. But nowadays we measure the peak at 29,029 ft. What’s more interesting is that if we would measure it from the Earth’s center, it wouldn’t be Earth’s highest peak. That title would go to Mount Chimborazo, which is farthest from the Earth’s center due to the planet not being perfectly round.
Speaking about planets, if someone were to ask you what color is the Sun, would you say “Yellow?” Unfortunately, it’s not, and neither is it orange, red or any other tone of those. To our eyes, the Sun appears white, but it’s actually all colors mixed together.
We can see different colors of the Sun during different times of day. At sunset, it’s yellow, orange, or red, because these have the longest wavelengths and they make it through the Earth’s thick atmosphere. During midday, the sky looks blue to us because the shortest waves (blue, green, and violet) bounce around and scatter around the atmosphere.
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Have you ever wondered how the clouds keep floating in the sky and not falling? If you haven’t you probably didn’t know that a typical cumulus cloud weighs around 551 tons. Clouds don’t fall because the rising air that they form out of keeps them floating in the air. The air below the cloud is denser and allows it to float atop.
