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Most things get denser as they get colder. Water is one of the major and most important exceptions to this. Water is at its densest (without invoking the various exotic ice forms) at 4°C. It gets lighter as it gets colder.
Without this property there could have been no life in Earth. If water acted like almost all (perhaps all?) other liquids, its solid form would be denser than its liquid form and ice would sink to the bottom, meaning all bodies of water would freeze solid bottom to top in cold weather. The fact that water freezes only at the top is why life could form and why non-aqueous liquids are unlikely to allow life to form.
Fascinating.
The King's Chamber in the great pyramid maintains a temperature of 68° F.
I wonder if that's by accident or design
I really don't think we'll ever know. There are theories from the "Aliens!" set, but barring time travel...
Telephones, cars and computers are not American inventions
Scottish (or Italian according to "some" (Italians, mostly)), German, and British, if I'm not mistaken.
Computer is german too
Konrad Zuse
True. Not sure which was actually built first.
It can be argued that Turing was first, as he theorized it in a paper much earlier, but a valid counter-argument was that his paper about a theorized computer referred to a person.
I wouldnt say having a theory counts as being the inventor. In my eyes you have to put the theory into practise and show that it works.
Having the theory and then putting the theory into practise and getting that to work stable requires a whole lot more than just the theory
The Z1 was build in 1937 and was the first programable computer in binary
I really like y'all, and we'll get through this thing eventually. Exercise is the best and most accessible antidepressant for most humans.
The moon is not round/spherical. It's actually got some longer sides, making it sort of lemon shaped.
This is basically true for every celestial body, not just the moon.
That's a good one!
Thanks, your display icon thing prompted it for me
I'm glad I inspired you
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Look up Operation Paul Bunyan AKA The Korean Axe Murder Incident
The silver mines discovered in the Americas in the 1500s, especially the mine of Potosi, supplied Europe, through the following centuries, with over 11x its then current supply of silver.