How can you use a wall and a newspaper to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew? Detailed answer

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How can you use a wall and a newspaper to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew?

To open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew, you need a hard surface, like a wall, as well as a softening object - a book, newspaper, or just a shoe. Leaning the newspaper against the wall, you need to take the bottle and hit it with the bottom strictly perpendicular to the wall one or more times until the cork comes out far enough to remove its rest with your hand. This phenomenon is explained by the fact that during a collision, the flow rate of the liquid inside the bottle changes dramatically, which causes a water hammer that affects the cork. It is worth noting that with inept handling, the bottle may break, so the experiment is best done by wrapping it with a towel.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is the name of the largest rock in the world?

Not Ayers Rock.

The largest monolithic rock in the world is Mount Augustus (or Burringurrah), located in a remote part of Western Australia. Augustus is two and a half times the size of Uluru (new name Ayers Rock) and one of the least known but most impressive places in the world.

Augustus rises 858 m above the surrounding wasteland, and its crest stretches for more than 8 km.

Augustus is not only larger and taller than Uluru, the rock of this mountain is also much older. That gray sandstone that opens up to our eyes is the remains of the seabed that formed here 1000 million years ago. And the rock hiding under the sandstone is granite 1650 million years old. The most ancient sandstone Uluru is only 400 million years old.

Augustus Rock is a sacred site of the Wajari aborigines. She got her name in honor of a young man named Burringurra, who tried to escape from the rite of passage. The women of the tribe caught up with the fugitive, wounded him with a spear in the leg, and then beat him to death with strong clubs. They say that the shape of the rock resembles a prostrate body: as if a young man is lying on his stomach, bending his leg to his chest, from which a fragment of a spear shaft sticks out.

And finally, the last sting in the tail of the arrogant snobs from the Ayers Rock camp: Mount Augustus is a monolith, that is, a single piece of rock. Uluru is not. Ayers Rock is just the tip of a huge underground mountain system that sticks out of the ground in two more places: Mount Conner (Attila, Attila) and Mount Olga (Kata Tjuta, Kata Tjuta).

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