It includes information on a huge range of World facts.
1 Jan (midnight) Big Bang – Universe forms 15 Mar First stars and galaxies form 1 May Milky Way galaxy forms 8 Sep Sun forms 9 Sep Solar system forms 12 Sep Earth forms 13 Sep Moon forms 20 Sep Earth’s atmosphere forms 1 Oct Earliest known life on Earth 7 Oct Earliest known fossils …
One beat of a fly’s wing: (1/1,000 second) 0.001 seconds Flash of lightening: (1/1,000 second) 0.001 seconds One beat of a hummingbird’s wing: (80 times a second) 0.0125 seconds Mouse heartbeat: (10.8 times a second) 0.09 seconds Blink a human eye: 0.33 seconds Human heartbeat: 1.0 seconds Land speed record: car ThrustSSC travelling 1 Km …
The Earth is constantly turning on its axis. If people everywhere set their clocks to the same time, midnight would be in the middle of the night on one side of the globe, but the middle of the day on the opposite side. To avoid this problem the Earth is divided into artificial time zones. …
In one day ( 24 hours or 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds ) the world turns once on its axis. During that time, on average: 364,478 people are born and 151,650 people die.
The ancient Babylonians, then the Romans, named the days of the week after planets and other bodies they saw in the sky. Some names we know today come from the names of Scandinavian gods. Monday Moon’s day Tuesday Tiu’s day: Mars, the Roman god of war, was adopted in Scandinavian mythology as the warrior Tiu …
