From Pirates to Nuclear Plants
Issue 17
Pirates wore eye patches to increase night vision, not to cover a missing eye — but to gain a tactical advantage when they ran below decks to fight in the dark.
In any human body there are around 30 trillion cells. There are 210 different cell types — the largest cell is the female egg cell and the smallest human cells are sperm cells.
A bond issued in 1648 from Stichtse Rijnlanden, a Dutch water authority, still pays an annual interest — more than 3 centuries after it was issued.
As of 2020, there were 440 active traditional nuclear reactors worldwide. The United States had the most at 95 followed by 57 in France.
