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Why does the highest peak in the world have an English name?

This mountain on the border of Nepal and Tibet, the locals call Chomolungma in Tibetan, and Sagarmatha in Nepalese. British surveyors first dubbed it "Peak No. 1852" in 15, and then named it after Sir George Everest, the head of the Surveyor Survey of British India. For the first time its summit with a height of 8848 m was conquered by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa (Nepalese) Tending Norgay.

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What is the best floor to drop a cat from?

With anyone - if only he was above the seventh.

How great the height will be, it does not matter at all - the main thing is that the animal has enough oxygen.

Like most small animals, cats have a non-lethal terminal speed - in the case of a cat, this is about 100 km / h. It is enough for a cat to relax, as it immediately orients itself, spreads out in the air and parachutes like a flying squirrel.

Terminal velocity is the point at which the weight of the body becomes equal to the air resistance and the body stops accelerating. In humans, this figure is 195 km / h and is reached at an altitude of about 550 m.

There are cases when cats fell from the thirtieth floor or higher without any harm to health. One, for example, survived flying forty-six floors. There is even an officially registered fact when a poor animal was deliberately thrown out of a Cessna plane at an altitude of 244 m - and the cat remained alive.

In 1987, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association published an article analyzing 132 cases of cat falls from New York high-rise windows. On average, cats fell from 5,5 floors. Ninety percent of them survived, although many received fairly serious injuries. The results of the analysis show that the number and severity of injuries increased in proportion to the number of floors - up to the seventh. Above the seventh floor, the average amount of damage dropped sharply. In other words, the longer the cat falls, the more chances it has.

The most famous examples of human free fall are two cases. 10-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulvovich fell from a height of 600 meters after a Croatian terrorist bombed a Yugoslav passenger plane in 1972. Nicholas Elkiemaid, RAF Senior Gunnery Sergeant, jumped out of a burning Lancaster in 1944 and flew 5800 meters with an unopened parachute.

Vesna broke both legs and injured her spine, but remained alive due to the fact that the toilet stall, to which the flight attendant's chair was screwed, took the impact on the ground.

The fall of Elkimaid was softened by a tree and a snowdrift. Surprisingly, everything went without a single fracture. When the pilot was found, he calmly sat in the snow and smoked.

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