AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING LXXVIII

1. The earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun - about 6,000 degrees Celsius or 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The core of the sun is 15,000,000 degrees Celsius or 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit - hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion

2. The Celsius scale is the same as Centigrade - water freezing at 0 degrees and boiling at 100 degrees. It came be known as Centigrade because of the 100 degree difference between the defined points. In the Fahrenheit scale, water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. Almost every country in the world uses the Celsius (Centigrade) scale and the metric system except the United States.

3. To convert degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 32 from the Fahrenheit temperature and multiply by 5/9. To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius temperature by 9/5 and add 32.

4. Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, means "elephant trunk" in Arabic.

5. El Al, the flag-carrier Israeli airline, grounds all its planes on the Jewish Sabbath - from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.

6. Moths and butterflies have four wings.

7. As of this date (12/31/22), Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been married for 75 years (July 7, 1946).

8. Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House - to Frances Folsom on June 2, 1886.

9. Residents of New Mexico over 100 years old are exempt form state taxes.

10. Elephants of southeast Asian nations (long ago) were working animals. But white elephants were considered sacred. Monarchs would give white elephants to their enemies, hoping that the cost of maintaining them would ruin them financially. Thus the expression today means something unwanted but hard to dispose of.