Running just 5 minutes a day could add years to your life. Researchers examined records of 55,137 healthy individuals and found that, as a group, runners gained about 3 extra years of life compared with those adults who never ran. These benefits were the same no matter how much or little they ran. For generations, […]
PT Barnum, frustrated with how long people lingered in his museum’s exhibits, posted large signs throughout that said “This Way to the Egress”. He knew most of the visitors would follow them, not knowing that “Egress” meant “exit”. They couldn’t re-enter without paying the entry fee again. The museum’s collection included items collected throughout the […]
Sunset or sundown is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon, as a result of Earth’s rotation. The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the trailing edge of the Sun’s disk disappears below the horizon. The ray path of light from the setting Sun is highly distorted near […]
An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Each cell contains a positive terminal, or cathode, and a negative terminal, or anode. Electrolytes allow ions to move between the electrodes and terminals, which allows current to flow out of the battery to […]
In the 60′s Ford was in talks to buy Ferrari but when Ferrari backed out at the last minute it enraged Ford so they built the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It went on to win 4 consecutive times. Henry Ford II had wanted a Ford at Le Mans since the early 1960s. […]