100 Mind-Blowing Pronounced Facts

The creators of the PNG image file format wanted it to be pronounced as “ping.”

In Ancient Egypt, the word for ‘cat’ was pronounced ‘mew’, or ‘meow’.

Asian Elephants also have smaller, less-pronounced ears than those of African Elephants.

We can thank Albert Einstein for a lot of our current understanding of the physics of time. Rather than viewing time as a set order, he proved that it’s relative. For example, according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, there’s an inverse relationship between your speed and the speed of time. The faster you move, the slower time moves. This is why someone blasting through space will age slower than the people still hanging out on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly was born several minutes after his twin brother, Mark, but after Scott spent 340 days living on the International Space Station, he returned to Earth around an extra 5 milliseconds younger than his “big” brother. Had Scott been travelling at a speed close to the speed of light, that age difference would have become much more pronounced.

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