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Leap Year
It takes the earth one day to complete one spin on its axis. The time it takes the earth to complete
one trip around the sun is a year. But these units of time dont divide evenly, resulting in our
calendar year being 36 days, hours, !" minutes and a little over ! seconds long. #very !
years $e take those extra hours and minutes and fit it in an extra day, on %ebruary &'th, $hich
$e call Leap Day. #very fourth year thus is Leap Year. If $e did not have the extra day every !
years, in ()) years our calendar $ould be off by &! days
Our humble home
The stars that you see in the night sky are part of the *ilky +ay, our home galaxy. But the *ilky
+ay is not all around us because $e do not live in the middle of the *ilky +ay, our solar system
resides mid$ay bet$een the edge and the center of the *ilky +ay galaxy. If $e could travel at
the speed of light -("6,))) miles per second., it $ould take us about &,))) years to reach either
the rim or the center of the *ilky +ay.
Leonardo da Vinci the genius
/eonardo da 0inci, $ho $as born in 0inci, near %lorence in (!&, is kno$n for his visionary
ideas. 1e made sketches of scissors, the parachute, helicopter, airplanes, and engineering
designs, some of $hich came into use !)) years after his death in (('.
10 good uses for salt
2ust a pinch of it and its $orth it. +ere talking salt here. 3sed throughout human history,
mentioned often in the Bible, ubi4uitous and cheap. *ined from salt rocks and extracted from
sea $ater, salt is5 $ell, the 6salt of the earth.7 8ou cant live $ithout it healthily.
Teleision firsts
The first public television pictures $ere transmitted in ('&6. The first T0 intervie$ $as made
$ith Irish actress 9eggy :;eil in <pril ('3). The first televised sporting event $as a 2apanese
elementary school baseball game, broadcast in =eptember ('3(. The first daily broadcast $as
started by the BB> in ;ovember ('36.
Oldest boats
?ock dra$ings from the ?ed =ea site of +adi 1ammamat, dated to around !))) B>, sho$ that
ancient #gyptian boats $ere made from papyrus and reeds. 8et the $orlds earliest kno$n plank@
built ship, dated to &6)) B>, $as discovered next to the Areat 9yramid in ('&.
Sanjay Karki