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Sahara Desert

1. The World's largest deserts receive enough solar energy in six hours is so powerful that it can power the entire planet for a year. The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa. The sky is usually clear above the desert, and the sunshine duration is extremely high everywhere in the Sahara. Most of the desert has more than 3,600 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 82% of daylight hours), and a wide area in the eastern part has over 4,000 hours of bright sunshine per year (over 91% of daylight hours). Scientists suggest that that if we could gather all that energy, we could power the world. In reality, we would harvest so much more energy than we could ever possibly need.

Halima Cissé together with his husband and kids

2. A woman named Halima Cissé from Mali set a world record in 2021 by giving birth to nonuplets (9 babies). When Halima Cissé was 25 years old, she got pregnant. Doctors believed that Cissé was pregnant with seven foetuses and On 30 March 2021, President Bah Ndaw instructed the Government of Mali to transport Cissé to Casablanca, Morocco in order to give birth. On 4 May 2021 her nine nonuplets were born prematurely at 30 weeks, by caesarean section and weighed between 500g and 1kg.[2] The birth date had been postponed as late as possible to increase the chance of the babies' surviving.[5] The children were cared for in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca,[6] Cissé was also provided with medical care for one month and required surgery after the birth. Halima Cissé is the Malian mother to the world's only known nonuplets that have survived birth.




3. If you put a piece of pineapple in your mouth it will start eating your mouth because it has proteins that degrade meat. The protein is known as enzyme bromelain. Bromelain is an enzyme extract derived from the stems of pineapples, although it exists in all parts of the fresh pineapple. Bromelain affects the structure of the myosin and actin filaments in myofibrillar proteins. Proteolytic enzymes increase the rate of myofibril fragmentation in meat and interrupt the intramuscular connective tissue structure. This is the reason why pineapple is one of the most preferred tenderizers.




4. Jack Black's mother, Judith Love Cohen, was a co-creator of the Abort-Guidance System that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. When Judith went into labor, she brought a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital and solved it before Jack was born. Love Cohen worked on the Abort-Guidance System that was used to safely return the Apollo 13 astronauts to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft. Love Cohen left work to go to the hospital but brought along a printout of a problem she was working on. She called in the solution – and Black’s birth announcement – from the hospital later that day.

“When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely,” Siegel wrote. “Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a ‘thank you’ to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.”

Judith Love Cohen died on July 25, 2016, after a short battle with cancer. She was just a couple of weeks shy of her 83rd birthday. A beloved mother, wife, and friend, she was an accomplished engineer, author, and publisher. Her first passions were dancing and engineering.




5. A girl named Christina Santhouse had one half of her brain removed when she was 8. When Christina was seven, she was diagnosed with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis, an inflammation of one hemisphere of the brain. The condition is life threatening and causes frequent seizures. By the time she was eight, she was having up to 150 seizures a day. In lieu of chemotherapy and steroid treatments, Christina had a 14-hour hemispherectomy, a procedure in which the right side of the brain was surgically removed. She lost most of her motor skills on the left side of her body, but it didn’t deter her from fulfilling her dreams. At 28, Christina Santhouse has a Master’s Degree, is married, owns a home and works a fulfilling job as a speech pathologist.