How hot is the sun?
At its surface, the sun is about 7,640 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words, very hot.
In the sun’s interior, temperatures can range above 18 million degrees Fahrenheit.
A wave breaks when the water that supports a wave is only about 1.3 times as deep as the wave is high. At that point, the water at the crest is moving faster than the water below. This condition commonly occurs in shallow water at the shore, but it may occur farther off if the…
Sigmund Freud’s original term for the unconscious mind was not id but es, the indefinite pronoun it in German. Freud borrowed that term from a physician, Georg Groddick, who in turn had borrowed it from his teacher Ernst Schweninger. As Freud’s ideas became popular in English-speaking countries, translators felt that simply calling the unconscious it…
Most men’s bodies are composed of about 40 percent muscle. Women’s bodies are 30 percent muscle.
An average bolt of lightning raises the air temperature along its way to about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The three tallest buildings in the United States in the 1980s were: Sears Tower. 1,454 feet, 110 stories (Chicago) World Trade Center. 1,350 feet, 110 stories (New York) Empire State Building. 1,250 feet, 102 stories (New York)
It is not New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. It is Juneau, Alaska, which covers 3,108 square miles. Los Angeles, in contrast, covers only 458.2 square miles.