Some amazing facts you need to know

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world thereby stimulating progress and giving birth to evolution

The above quote by Albert Einstein rightly captures the essence of knowing some things. Learning is always in continuum and establishing a factual foundation in the way we learn new things often develops our imaginative ability.

An individual that gives himself to learning facts will do well in other areas because there is always a nexus between knowledge sometimes. in what follows, here are some facts for your reading pleasure

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. The lightning bolt has a temperature of about 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit while the sun’s temperature is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit. This is one of the amazing phenomena on our planet and to the think the surface of the sun is its coolest part. How wonderful!

The hottest part of the sun is about 15, 000,0000 C

According to a census in India at least 34 births and 10 deaths are registered in the country every minute

Supersonic slender-wind aircraft like the concorde was designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound.

To date, the only SSTs to see regular service have been Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA. Concorde's last commercial flight was in October 2003, with a November 26, 2003 ferry flight being its last airborne operation.

The first Nobel prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to German Physicist, Wilhelm Roentgen, for his discovery of x-rays

On a dark November evening in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was perplexed by a fluorescent screen in his laboratory that was glowing for no apparent reason. Röntgen's experiment on how cathode-ray tubes emit light appeared to be affecting something that was not part of the study. It took weeks spent eating and sleeping in his lab to identify the cause of this mysterious glow – a discovery with which Röntgen's name is linked for all time, and which earned him the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

The man- Abraham Lincoln

Failed in business 1831
Defeated for Legislature 1832
Failed in business 1834
Sweetheart died 1835
Had Nervous breakdown 1836
Defeated in election 1838
Defeated for congress 1843
Defeated for congress 1848
Defeated for Senate 1855
Defeated for Vice President 1856
Defeated for Senate 1858
Became the U.S. President 1860