Friday 23 December 2011

10 Things you might know or maight not know.

The scientists that detonated the first nuclear explosion felt there was a strong possibility that the chain reaction could carry over to the Earth's atmosphere causing global annihilation. But they detonated it anyway.

The building that was targeted by the first nuclear weapon is still standing.

Many Japanese citizens left Hiroshima after surviving the atom bomb only to experience another one in Nagasaki 3 days later. Only 13 people survived BOTH blasts.

The US only had enough nuclear material to make 3 bombs. One was used to test the device and the other two were dropped on Japan.

The atom bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki was intended for Kukura. the pilot got lost in fog and was redirected to Nagasaki after he got his bearings.

The atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki was never tested, the prototype was dropped.

If you cut a holograph in half, you will get a different view of the subject in each half, but the entire subject will be visible in both pictures.

"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" was used to test teletype machines because it has every letter in the alphabet in it.

Most lipstick contains fish scales

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen

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