The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham Page B
Authors: Noel Botham
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water.
At any given time, there are eighteen hundred thunderstorms in progress over the earth’s atmosphere.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is forty degrees or less above the horizon.
Meteorologists claim they’re right 85 percent of the time.
ROCKETMEN
Astronauts in orbit around the earth can see the wakes of ships.
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee his pants on the moon.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The first man to return safely from space was Yuri Gagarin.
Three astronauts manned each Apollo flight.
The Saturn V moon rocket consumed fifteen tons of fuel per second.
The Apollo 11 had only twenty seconds of fuel left when it landed.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
A SPACE ODYSSEY
All the stars in the Milky Way revolve around the center of the galaxy every two hundred million years.
Astronomers classify stars by their spectra.
Three stars make up Orion’s belt.
French astronomer Adrien Auzout once considered building a telescope that was one thousand feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great he would see animals on the moon.
A neutron star has such a powerful gravitational pull that it can spin on its axis in one-?thirtieth of a second without tearing itself apart. A pulsar is a neutron star, and it gets its energy from its rotation.
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.
Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
MOON RIVER
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered thirty-?two comets and approximately three hundred asteroids.
Any free-?moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension.
The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant.
If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around three thousand years to count them all.
A syzygy occurs when three astronomical bodies line up.
The sixteenth-?century astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.
HERE COMES THE SUN
By weight, the sun is 70 percent hydrogen; 28 percent helium; 1.5 percent carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen; and 0.5 percent all other elements.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to Earth. All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays.
THE ELECTRIC SLIDE
One of the first lightbulbs was a thread of sheep’s wool coated with carbon.
A bolt of lightning can strike the earth with a force as great as one hundred million volts and generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the sun’s surface.
You are more likely to lose your hearing than any of the other senses if you are hit by lightning.
TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED
The first computer ever made was called ENIAC. A silicon chip a quarter-?inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell created Space-?wars, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the
At any given time, there are eighteen hundred thunderstorms in progress over the earth’s atmosphere.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.
A rainbow can only occur when the sun is forty degrees or less above the horizon.
Meteorologists claim they’re right 85 percent of the time.
ROCKETMEN
Astronauts in orbit around the earth can see the wakes of ships.
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee his pants on the moon.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The first man to return safely from space was Yuri Gagarin.
Three astronauts manned each Apollo flight.
The Saturn V moon rocket consumed fifteen tons of fuel per second.
The Apollo 11 had only twenty seconds of fuel left when it landed.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
A SPACE ODYSSEY
All the stars in the Milky Way revolve around the center of the galaxy every two hundred million years.
Astronomers classify stars by their spectra.
Three stars make up Orion’s belt.
French astronomer Adrien Auzout once considered building a telescope that was one thousand feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great he would see animals on the moon.
A neutron star has such a powerful gravitational pull that it can spin on its axis in one-?thirtieth of a second without tearing itself apart. A pulsar is a neutron star, and it gets its energy from its rotation.
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler stars give off red light.
Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
MOON RIVER
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered thirty-?two comets and approximately three hundred asteroids.
Any free-?moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension.
The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant.
If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around three thousand years to count them all.
A syzygy occurs when three astronomical bodies line up.
The sixteenth-?century astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.
HERE COMES THE SUN
By weight, the sun is 70 percent hydrogen; 28 percent helium; 1.5 percent carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen; and 0.5 percent all other elements.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to Earth. All totaled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner.
Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays.
THE ELECTRIC SLIDE
One of the first lightbulbs was a thread of sheep’s wool coated with carbon.
A bolt of lightning can strike the earth with a force as great as one hundred million volts and generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the sun’s surface.
You are more likely to lose your hearing than any of the other senses if you are hit by lightning.
TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED
The first computer ever made was called ENIAC. A silicon chip a quarter-?inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
In 1961, MIT student Steve Russell created Space-?wars, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) mainframe computer. Limited by the
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