How to make Silk?

Step 1: You’ll need a clean, warm environment, plenty of mulberry leaves, and lots of silkworm eggs. Silkworms are caterpillars (larvae) of the white silk moth, Bombyx Mori.

Step 2: The eggs will hatch in about a week. You will need to feed the larvae three times a day on chopped mulberry leaves – they’re fussy eaters and won't touch anything else. They grow very fast.

Step 3: After 25 days, they are ready to spin cocoons. Each silkworm spins around 1.6Km of silk filaments from tiny openings in its head. The silk comes out as a liquid and hardens on contact with the air.

Step 4: When the silkworm is completely enclosed in a cocoon, free the outside end of the filaments and start winding them onto a reel, twisting several filaments together to form yarn.

Step 5: Each cocoon will produce approximately 3650m of yarn. After it has been carefully dried and graded, the raw silk yarn can be dyed various colours, ready for weaving into silk cloth.

Silky fact: More than 50 per cent of the world’s silk comes from China and Japan. The Chinese learned how to make silk 3000 years ago but kept it a closely guarded secret for centuries. The Romans, who imported Chinese silk, thought it grew on trees!

How is time determined?

You'll probably say this after reading the title: “Time is measured in seconds you dumbass”. Just to clear your doubts about the dumbass thing, I know that time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours and on and on. But I'm not talking about the SI unit of measuring time here. Look at your watch. Check the time right now. How is it determined what the is time as shown by your watch. Let’s say the time is 9:00PM, but why is it 9PM right now? Well, because our watches say so. But why does our watch say that its 9PM? How does it know that right at this moment its 9PM?

Well actually, Time is measured or determined by observing the Earth’s movements relative to the sun. One complete spin of the Earth on its axis takes a day. And approximately 365.26 spins (days) make one complete revolution around the sun. This one revolution makes up one solar year. Units of time smaller than a day such as hours, minutes and seconds are then measured using clocks. Weeks, months and years are accordingly measured with the help of calendars.

Daily Fact: The AM and PM used to divide 24 hours of the day into two parts actually mean something. AM is short for the Latin phrase ante meridiem meaning ‘before midday’. And PM is short for the Latin phrase post meridiem meaning ‘after midday’.

Fast Fart Facts (FFF!)

Yeah you heard it correctly, its fart facts not fast facts. Some of these can be gross, but we are here to know the science behind the farts. Here are some crazy facts about the lovely farts and you might get amazed reading some of them.

1.      An average person farts 14 times a day. (14 times!)

2.      Farts smell because of certain stinky gases released by bacteria.

3.      Eating cauliflower, eggs or meat produces the smelliest farts. So if you are with your friends and you sense the most dazzling smell, point straight to the non-vegetarian.

4.      Eating beans produce the largest volume of farts. Bacteria love beans!

5.      Farts are made up of air that you swallow, and gases released by the bacteria in the intestines.

6.      You fart while sleeping. That can cover up some farts from the 14 farts per day fact.

Keep calm and Fart on!

10 Things your liver is doing right now

Our liver sure is a very busy organ we have. Apart from just handling the alcohol that we take in, our liver takes care of a lot of things side by side. Check it out.

1.      Controlling levels of sugar (glucose) in your blood.

2.      Processing digested food.

3.      Storing and transporting fats.

4.      Making green bile, which flows into the small intestine to help digest fats.

5.      Processing amino acids (protein building blocks) and making proteins.

6.      Storing vitamins A, B12, D, E and K.

7.      Removing hormones from the blood once they have done their job.

8.      Removing worn out dead blood cells.

9.      Removing bacteria.

10.   Removing and breaking down drugs and poisons.

Looks like everything is done by our liver only!

Ew Fact: The world’s human population deposits an incredible 2 Million tonnes of faeces (shit) everyday! Counting only humans and no animals. This is equivalent to the weight of 5000 completely full jumbo jets.

4 facts about the Great Wall of China

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•          It is a myth that astronauts can see the wall from space.
•       Most of the wall standing today was built 500 years ago by Ming emperors.
•       Parts of the wall were torn down and used as a quarry on the orders of communist leader Mao Zedong in the 1960s.

•      It is a chain of fortified walls and towers about 6400km long.