Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Top 50 Amazing Facts about Time

Time is one thing that is found in abundance yet everyone has shortage of it.

The key to find plenty of time is its proper management. It is a very complex thing to manage yet can be done simply by just being punctual.

Time is only one person which doesn't care about how rich or poor u are, what is your religion or in which country u live in, it is equal to all.


1)Philosophically speaking Time never stops for anyone!

2)For Newton time was absolute, with Einstein time became more flexible and relative in scope.

3)The sun you can see out of the window is 8 minutes and 20 seconds old. The light from our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4 years old.

4)If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime

5)Due to tidal friction from the sun and moon, the solar day is lengthening by 1.7 milliseconds each century as the Earth’s rotation slows down.

6)Time Is The Fourth Dimension

7) The smallest standard scientific measure of time is the “Planck time”. It takes you about five hundred and fifty thousand trillion trillion trillion Planck times to blink once, quickly.

8)The most accurate clock ever built is the strontium clock, which is accurate to within a second over 15 billion years.

9)The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

10)he longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

11)cats spend 66% of their life asleep

12)Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day

13)All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes

14)Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute

15)Elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period

16)10 years is known as a decade, 100 years is known as a century and 1000 years is known as a millennium.

17)A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories

18)A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute

19)Scientists believe the moon was used as a form of calendar as far back as 6000 years ago.

20)An average person will spend 25 years asleep

21)There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year

22)Count the seconds between seeing a flash and hearing thunder. Three seconds' delay means the lightning strike is 0.6 miles away.

23)Beans, peas and tomatoes are said to grow best if planted in the second week after the new moon.

24)All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20

25)The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes

26)Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.

27)There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year

28)A sundial is a tool that uses the position of the Sun to measure time, typically involving a shadow cast across a marked surface.

29)Einstein slept 10 hours a night

30)There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.

31)Theories related to time have been put forward by famous scientists such as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

32)Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day

33)If Earth were compressed into 24 hours then the first humans would appear just 40 seconds before midnight.

34)Normal years have 365 days but a Leap year has 366.

35)The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days

36)If you wanted to measure time you could use a watch, clock, hourglass or even a sundial.

37)Milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds are examples of very small units of time.

38)Theories related to time have been put forward by famous scientists such as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

39)A nanosecond is one billionth of a second... a long time compared to the femtosecond, the at to second and the shortest possible unit of time - known as Planck time.

40)The Julian calendar assumed a year is exactly 365.25 days - about 10 and three quarter minutes too long.

41)Worldwide, the median number of paid vacation time available to workers is under 25 days a year. Collectively, workers leave about 20 percent of this time off unused.

42)The Babylonians measured one day from sunrise to sunset.

43)For hundreds of years, people used burning candles, dripping water – known as water clocks — or sifting sand to tell time’s passage. People still use sand clocks or hourglasses to keep time.

44)Wristwatches were very popular for women for hundreds of years, while men carried pocket watches.

45)In the 14th century, Europeans developed basic clocks with springs and weights. These clocks sounded a bell every hour. Later, clock makers developed the hour and minute hands. These clocks were not very accurate.

46)Like length, weight or height have units Time also has units and those are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.

47)There is a way of measuring time in months, weeks or days and that is called a calendar.

48)Some people can even use the night sky as their clocks!

49)In windy areas it is the wind that changes its direction or stops blowing at similar times during a day. In such places the wind can be used as the clock!

50)The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.

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