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TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUTTHE SUN
1. The Sun’s core burns at a sustained 15,000,000 degrees C°, 27,000,000 degreesF°. A single photon from the core takes 150,000 years to reach the frontiers ofspace.2. In pagan times, the Sun’s birthday was celebrated on December 25. Then in 354A.D., Liberius, Bishop of Rome, decreed that day as the birthday of Jesus Christ.3. The Sun is brighter than 85 percent of the Milky Way—but on Earth the brightestsustained light isn’t from the Sun at all but from the Sky Beam at the Luxor Resortand Casino in Las Vegas.4. Ancient worshippers believed our star was a man with three eyes and four arms,abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary.5. Both Russian scientists and American historians have connected revolutions withsunspots. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune,and both Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 all fell close to the years ofmaximum solar activity.6. Galileo was the rst to observe blemishes on the solar surface—sunspots—buthid his discoveries for fear of persecution.7. The Sun is responsible for 44 percent of the Earth’s tidal energy (the Moon theremainder). When Sun and Moon are in alignment—in apogee—pulling the Earth inthe same direction, our bodies are stretched, making each of us taller—albeit by afactor of ten to the minus sixteenth.8. In India, even today, pregnant women are kept indoors during an eclipse, for feartheir babies will be born blind or with cleft palates.9. The physicists who discovered the source of the Sun’s power were the samemen who helped create the atomic bomb.10. Twenty-ve percent of people sneeze when exposed to sunlight (Francis Bacon,in 1635, being one of several ancients to recognize the afiction). Pathologistshave dubbed this ‘the Attishoo Syndrome.’ It is well known as a hazard to ghterpilots, especially when they turn towards the Sun.
by Richard Cohen
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wofe99

ได้ความรู้

reply12 / 05 / 2010
Kenosis23

How many times does a document need to be featured? This is twice for this one.

reply12 / 03 / 2010
tawingfield

didn't know about it's Christmas birthday, that's pretty funny!

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