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Where is money made from plastic instead of paper?

Australian dollar bills are not made of paper, but of special plastic. In 1996, Australia was the first country in the world to completely switch to plastic banknotes, and so far Romania, Vietnam, New Zealand, Brunei, Bermuda and Papua New Guinea have followed suit.

Another 20 countries issue individual denominations or limited batches of commemorative banknotes from plastic.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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How was the asteroid belt formed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter there is a belt 100-300 million kilometers wide, formed by several tens of thousands of rocky bodies - asteroids. They revolve around the Sun, passing their orbit in 3-6 years. Most of them are irregular in shape, ranging in size from a few centimeters to 100 kilometers.

There are two hypotheses for the origin of asteroids.

According to one hypothesis, asteroids are the remains of a planet that has split as a result of some kind of catastrophe - for example, a collision with another massive body. This hypothetical planet was named Phaeton. According to the supporters of the hypothesis, the Moon testifies to the time of its destruction: 4 billion years ago, a flurry of fragments of Phaeton fell upon it, which formed giant impact craters with a diameter of up to 1000 kilometers. The same fragments flew to the Earth, but they collapsed in its dense atmosphere.

Proponents of another hypothesis of the origin of asteroids consider them to be a kind of planets that ended up in their current orbits due to intense gravitational processes near Jupiter.

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Researchers at Princeton and the University of Vienna have used x-ray video to study how monkeys speak. First of all, the researchers focused on the lips, since they produce many of the facial expressions used for communication.

Unlike the larynx, at first glance, the lips produce only simple hollow smacking sounds (like "p"). But X-ray video shows that lip smacking is actually a very complex movement, requiring fast, coordinated movements of the lips, jaws, tongue, and hyoid bone, which provides support for the skeleton of the larynx and tongue. These movements have a high rate of about 5 cycles per second, which is much faster than chewing movements (about 2,5 cycles per second). Thus, although lip smacking looks like "fake chewing", they are actually different movements.

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