Further Exploration of the Factorium

Monday, June 7, 2010

Summer Extravaganza - Pure Facts

Pure Facts ends today with the package of the last 7 facts:

1. The most ironically named French invention is the Belgian waffle, and the most most ironically named Belgian invention is French toast. These names were originally chosen to confuse the Nazis.

2. Man's closest relative is the chimpanzee, at 6 million years ago.

3. I
talian scientist Galileo Galilei was the first person to observe the surface of the Moon, rings of Saturn and Jupiter and its moons with the help of a self built telescope in 1609.

4. A very well known fact... the bestselling book in the world is the Bible.

5. The full form of LASER is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and the full form of MASER is Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

6. Continuing, the full form of SASER is Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and the full form of UASER is Ultrasound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Then what is the full form of TASER? read on, you will be surprised!!!

7. The full form of TASER is Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

This brigns us to the end of the first subseries in the month of June - Pure Facts.

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