An Inquisitive Mind

2022-08-21 17:00:01 The process of creating a lipstick

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2022-08-21 14:00:01 The Dutchman invented an autonomous device for collecting garbage in the ocean, powered by solar energy.

25-year-old Dutchman Bojan Slat created a device in 2018 that can collect 5 tons of plastic waste per month. If things continue at this pace, then in 20 years the ocean will be 90% cleaner from garbage.

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2022-08-20 17:00:01 The sodium hydroxide dissolves the aluminum of the can, leaving the plastic layer that was inside the can

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2022-08-20 14:00:01 According to the most conservative estimates, the baobab lives among the most one thousand years; at the same time, there is evidence that the age of a tree with a diameter of 4.5 m, determined by radiocarbon analysis, is more than 4500 years.

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2022-08-19 17:00:01 Amazing picture

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2022-08-19 14:00:01 The world's deepest mailbox is 10 meters (32,8 ft) deep in Japan.

In the fishing town of Susami, Japan, there is a mailbox that is 10 meters (32.8 ft) deep. In order to send a letter, a postcard (of course, the item must be waterproof; the ink with which you sign the item must also be water-resistant), you have to dive to the depth, find the mailbox and stick the item in a special slot.

The mailbox was installed in 1999 and since then, 32,000 pieces of mail have passed through it.

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2022-08-18 17:00:02 Baggage sorting at Singapore airport

When a suitcase enters the intersection better than you do.

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2022-08-18 14:00:02 The scientist I. Newton was the first to distinguish the colors of the rainbow

And initially he singled out only five - purple, blue, green, yellow and red.

After a while, creating a correspondence between the number of tones of the musical scale and the number of shades of the spectrum, he added two more colors - orange and blue.

In fact, the rainbow has millions of colors and shades, most of which are simply invisible to the human eye.

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2022-08-17 17:00:01 Have you ever seen a catch-up among professionals?

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2022-08-17 14:00:02 This is the aircraft's meteorological radar.

Most often, such a radar is installed in the nose of the aircraft. The airborne meteorological radar provides the pilot with a local (only in the forward hemisphere) picture of weather phenomena, which makes it possible for him to identify and avoid unwanted weather formations.

Usually, the maximum range of such a radar is 180 nautical miles (333 km), while, as a rule, a range of up to 30 ... 80 nautical miles is used, which is set by the aircraft crew.

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