DID YOU KNOW?
This week the team has created some rather informative and interesting facts. Enjoy these facts and learn something new about the events occurring in our world.
1. The smallest skeletal muscle in the human body is the stapedius. It is one of three tiny bones that make up the ossicular chain in the middle ear and joins the neck of the stapes, the smallest bone in the body, with a length of just over one millimetre. Its purpose is to stabilise this tiny bone.
2. Gandhi was a naturally shy person and was able to successfully protest against British colonial control in India via nonviolent resistance. This campaign was called Satyagraha, which means “truth force” in Sanskrit. Gandhi continues to have a significant impact on civil rights movements today.
3. Rugby’s beginnings may be traced back to the Rugby School in England in 1823 and are linked to the theory that a student there named William Webb Ellis scooped up the ball during a game and ran with it. In 1995, the Rugby Football Union, which was founded in 1871, was regarded as a professional sport.
4. Both above and below the surface of the earth can experience earthquakes. Almost 400 miles below the surface of the planet, in the crust or upper mantle, earthquakes are found. Only at subduction zones, where cold crustal rock is being driven down into the ground, do the deepest earthquakes take place.
5. The Voynich manuscript, which was named after Wilfrid Voynich, is an illustrated book written in an unidentified language and dated to the 15th or 16th centuries. The 240 vellum pages of the text feature drawings of plants, zodiac signs, and fantastical creatures that have not been deciphered to date.
6. Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, discovered that copper and zinc discs immersed in saline water and wrapped in cloth could transmit energy, leading to the invention of the first battery in 1800. William Cruickshank changed Volta’s design and utilised 50 extra coppers to make the Trough battery.
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