501 Astonishing Facts
By Sanjeev Garg
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The book contains a total of 501 facts which make the reader wonder about our strange but truly fascinating world.
The success of this book underlines the growing realisation that books now are no longer looked upon something as having necessarily a direct link to classroom and examination—and in consequence, to be shelved when the need is over. With exciting facts from different fields the book stimulates young reader's interest in the world around him-thus inspiring him to pursue knowledge purely for the sake of it.In turn it also helps to develop logical thinking and a scientific temperament.
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501 Astonishing Facts - Sanjeev Garg
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1. ASTONISHING PLANET EARTH
Booming Sound
Loud booming sounds are produced in deserts when sand slips down the steep faces of the dunes.
How Cold
The average temperature at South Pole is -50°C. In 1983, Russian Vostok Station, east of the South Pole recorded the lowest temperature of-89.2°C.
Magnetic Poles
The North Magnetic Pole is about 1600 km from the true North Pole, while the South Magnetic Pole is about 2570 km from the South Pole (Fig. 1.1).
Geyser
Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone, USA regularly shoots thousands of gallons of streaming water high into the air between 37 and 46 m.
Wind Speed
On Antarctica, the speed of the wind sometimes goes beyond 300 km/hr.
Loudest Volcanic Explosion
During the last 3,000 years, the greatest single Volcanic explosion was of Krakatoa (Indonesia) on August 27,1883. It was equivalent to 1,500 mégatonnes of TNT, making it 25 times more powerful than the biggest ever nuclear explosion. Its sound of explosion was heard somewhere in Australia at a remote distance of 4700 km.
Life on Earth
Life on Earth began about 3,500 million years ago, just after 1,100 million years of its origin.
River Nile
Among the 50 big rivers of the world, Nile is 6,650 km long and Amazon 6,450 km long.
Desert Without Rain
Atacama desert of Chile never had any rainfall for about 400 years until 1971. It is considered as the driest plateau across the world.
International Date-line
A traveller crossing the International date-line can actually leave the same day of a week twice (Fig. 1.3).
Sailing Around the Earth
It is possible to sail all the way around the Earth on latitude 60° south.
Rock of Ages
The oldest known rocks, found in Western Australia are about 3,200 million years old — about 3 00 million years younger than the planet itself.
Lowest Hill
The lowest hill of 15 ft height is shown on the official map of Syria. Its name is Bukit Thompson.
Water Cycle
Water which has been evaporated today from the oceans will reach back after a period of 1,000 years (Fig. 1.4).
Ice Thickness
The greatest ice thickness in Antarctic region has been measured to be 4,776 metres i.e., about 3 miles.
Oceans
We see land everywhere on the Earth, but it is a planet whose 71 per cent land mass is covered with water (Fig. 1.5).
Tides
The greatest tides occur in the bay of Fundy.
Iceberg
In 1956, an iceberg from Antarctica came on record-335 km long and 97 km wide much larger than the size of Delhi (Fig. 1.6).
Underground Lake
Most of the lakes are on the land, but there is one under the ground. Its name is Lost Sea. It is in the USA and was discovered in 1905.
Sand Dunes
Sand Dunes in Sahara Desert can attain heights of 1,400 ft. equivalent to many mountains of Earth.
Natural Bridge
Man has made beautiful and long bridges all over the world, but Nature has made bridges of its own. Such a highest natural bridge exists in Sinkiang, China, which is 312 m height with a span of 45 m.
Antarctic Ice Melt
If the ice of Antarctic continent melts, the level of water in the oceans will become so high that the whole world will become flooded.
Sahara
Sahara desert occupies about 1/8 area of the land. It is about 9 million square kilometres.
Sea Level
Due to the global warming effect, the level of water in the Caspian Sea has started rising. This is a warning to human race that any day, the continents may become over-flooded.
2. UNBELIEVABLE FACTS ABOUT UNIVERSE
Giant Star
Antares star is about 420 million kilometres in diameter, which is 300 times the width of the sun.
Black Hole
The gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that it can swallow anything in the universe, even a passing star and its light. If a book weighing 1 kg is brought to within 6 m of a black hole, it would weigh a million million tonnes.
Lunar Scars
The surface of the moon is pitted with craters of all sizes up to 250 km in diameter. These have been created by meteorites smashing into the surface long ago (Fig. 2.2).
Thunderstorms
At any given moment, there are about 1,800 thunderstorms raging around the world, generating between them about 6,000 flashes of lightning every minute (Fig. 2.3).
Largest Volcano
The largest volcano in the solar system is on Mars Olympus Moons, 600 km wide and 24,000 m high, is nearly three times higher than Mt. Everest.
Sun’s Revolutions
So far, sun has orbited