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^lol :lol:
hope he had mass apeel
hope he didn't slip from his position

TIL citation needed factoid
This is about the Indian National Calender
It was a futile exercise as no one accepted it for either religious or official purposes. It also put an unnecessary load on the All India Radio and DD staff. No one in the general population appeared aware that such a calendar existed. That is why no one took notice when the Modi Government stopped publishing it in 2015. Even the self proclaimed descendants of Nehru did not notice.
Indian national calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thing is, most of the Hindu based calenders are wrong because they were not aware of or ignored the precession of the equinoxes. Which means Hindus, even today, continue to celebrate our festivals according to 2500+ year old knowledge.
 

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TIL 32,000 years ago a squirrel buried seeds of a plant that became extinct. In 2012, scientists brought it back to life.
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32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life?Oldest Yet
 

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TIL gravity is weakest in South India

this is a map of how strong gravity is
*i.imgur.com/DmT1Inf.gif
 
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TIL Raymond Palmer (Atom in comics, who can shrink to his size at will) is named after a real-life sci-fi writer Raymond A. Palmer, who's himself is very short.

*efanzines.com/EK/eI41/RAP/Palmer_Shaver5291.jpg
 

Chetan1991

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Today I learned about types of heaters:

Copper Element + Fan types are suitable to warm up rooms where windows and doors are not going to be opened frequently since hot air will escape.

Halogen / Quartz Heaters heat up very quickly, but are not very efficient in heating the surrounding air since they use Infra red rays, which although at close distance does give you the feeling of standing in bright sunlight.

PTC elements are made of materials whose resistance increases rapidly after a certain temperature range and thus act as a thermostat.

Oil filled heaters are rather inefficient and take time to heat up, but apparently can be used to dry clothes.
 

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There is also the effect of gravitational time dilation. Time goes by a little faster in South India as compared to the rest of the world.
 

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it's a matter of billionth's of a second. A clock on the wall is faster than the same clock on the floor.
Scientists prove time really does pass quicker at a higher altitude | Daily Mail Online
combine that with the gravitation being marginally lower in South India compared to the rest of the world, and it follows that time is faster in South India
 

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Yep. Also your head is going through time billionths of a second faster than your feet. (Assuming you are not doing a handstand)
 

adityak469

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Is this true?
Yes it sure is!
So we are actually doing a time travel in very little time difference??
Well we do time travel everyday, we just don;t notice it, AFAIK, time has same properties as gravitation so it differs from place to place, even though its super negligible. You may already know this, but the light we see, either at day or at night is from the past, from our sun, its 8mins from the past, and from the stars, , its thousands of years from the past!
Though when I got to know about it, it destroyed how I looked at the stars :p
 

lywyre

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Yes it sure is!

Well we do time travel everyday, we just don;t notice it, AFAIK, time has same properties as gravitation so it differs from place to place, even though its super negligible. You may already know this, but the light we see, either at day or at night is from the past, from our sun, its 8mins from the past, and from the stars, , its thousands of years from the past!
Though when I got to know about it, it destroyed how I looked at the stars :p

I miss the night sky. I long for a night when I could keep staring at the stars until the sky becomes milky white.
 
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