Amaging facts #17

in #facts7 years ago (edited)

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That these are a few of the 5,000 columns at Crowley Lake in East California. They were formed 700,000 years ago by snow melt seeping through volcanic ash.


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That it is estimated that there are about 49 million bubbles in each bottle of champagne. A popped champagne cork can travel at up to 100 mph and the furthest recorded distance is over 175 feet.


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That the name of the country of Pakistan was originally coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, using it as an acronym referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan. The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct, meaningful, and colourful name.


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