Interesting Facts - Page 27

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The Japanese stock market peaked in 1989. As of 2018, it is still worth 40% less than its all-time high.

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Despite being one of history's greatest scientific minds, Isaac Newton spent a large percentage of his time studying alchemy.

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Every U.S. state has increased in population since 1960 with one exception - West Virginia.

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The city of Pasadena, Texas was founded in 1893. It was named after the city of Pasadena, California which had been founded just seven years earlier.

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Charleston is not the capital of South Carolina. It is, however, the capital of West Virginia.

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Level 86

May 29, 2018

One of history's greatest scientific minds?

Level ∞

May 30, 2018

Yes, fixed.

Level 71

Apr 3, 2021

Easy for us to say today that alchemy is psuedoscience, but in medieval times (and into Newton's time), alchemy was inextricably linked to chemistry and it was something that attracted some of the greatest scientific minds. I'd recommend reading into it, especially the kind of stuff they research during the Golden Age of Islam!

Level 84

Feb 20, 2022

Exactly. All chemists are the spiritual successors of alchemists. Per the UC Davis website: "Alchemy, the predecessor of modern chemistry, has influenced the discovery of several scientific concepts and experimental methodologies that have constructed the foundational basis of empirical science."

Level 83

Apr 14, 2024

Also it is possible to turn one element into another, just it's very difficult, and lead > gold hasn't been done yet.

Level 89

Oct 9, 2018

I don't think he could see atoms.

Level 68

Nov 17, 2018

Sounds country roads are taking me from home

Level 50

Nov 2, 2019

Isaac Newton didn't invent anything. He wasn't the first of great modern time scientists, he was the last of medieval alchemists. Most of his writings are being kept away from public, because establishment want to maintain Newton- cult. These writings are like composition of complete lunatic. His "famous" calculus is impossible comprehend, and actually modern calculus is based on Leibniz's calculus published years before Newton's. Some scientists believe Newton copied Leibniz's work. In regards of gravity, Newton didn't really invent anything, he just reformulated Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Newton's law of gravity can be easily derived from Kepler's laws.

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Level 71

Aug 2, 2020

Rubbish

Level 57

Feb 19, 2021

You're just jealous of Newton lol

Level 83

Apr 14, 2024

'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'

Level 63

Apr 3, 2020

Didn't anyone on this site hear about the guy who found a mistake in Newton's Principia?

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Level 84

Jun 25, 2021

I don't understand all the scorn that alchemy gets. It wasn't an insane idea, and it's the reason that we have chemistry. We now know that you can't turn lead into gold, but we couldn't have known that at the time, and we couldn't have known why. Alchemists attempted to purify raw materials. They discovered that some materials were compounds or alloys, and others were elementary and unchangeable. As the list of elements increased, it was discovered that they could be grouped according to characteristics beyond being dense and malleable. Eventually someone noticed a repeating pattern and created a periodic table of the elements. There would be no chemists if there had been no alchemists.

Newton died in 1727, 142 years before Mendeleev published his first periodic table. When you say that Newton was an alchemist despite being one of history's greatest minds, you mean that he studied the best physical science that existed at the time.

Level 71

Sep 9, 2021

Nice comment 'sumguy' + 1

Level 84

Feb 20, 2022

I hadn't seen #132 in such a long time, I thought QM had replaced it with the one about Newton getting scammed and dying a virgin (#480). Those are legitimately notable for a person from his era.

Level 63

Aug 3, 2021

Wait, if the population of West Virginia hasn't increased in sixty one years then does that mean nobody moved in or was born in West Virginia for sixty one years?

Level 71

Aug 20, 2021

If there is a birth or someone legally enters West Virginia the person living nearest the State boundary is shoved over the State boundary line and can't come back unless someone dies.

Level 55

Jul 22, 2022

#135 is not interesting, it is just a fact.

Level 50

Dec 14, 2022

I think what Quizmaster is trying to say is that Charleston is a large city in SC. However, it's the capital of West Virginia. I don't fully understand it either.

Level 82

Feb 25, 2024

As of this week, the Nikkei has finally reached a new high after about 35 years.