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How does a country live on a time that is a fraction of Greenwich Mean Time - 5 hours and 45 minutes?

Our planet is divided into time zones, each of which is one hour from the previous one. However, some territories, such as India or the Canadian island of Newfoundland, live on "half" time, where the offset relative to the neighbors is not a whole hour, but half an hour. The most unique country in this respect is Nepal, where the offset relative to Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours and 45 minutes. The situation is similar in the New Zealand-owned Chatham archipelago, where the difference with Greenwich Mean Time is 12 hours 45 minutes.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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The pulse rate allows you to find out how fast the heart beats and what is the pressure in the circulatory system. There is a pause in the work of the heart. During this pause, the aortic wall contracts. This contraction forces excess blood (fresh from the heart) to move through the circulatory system. The subsequent expansion and contraction (or pulsation) of the aorta produces an oscillation that travels throughout the body's arterial system.

The pulsation of the arteries, which can be felt on any artery close to the skin, is called a pulse. Since the pulse is directly related to the contraction of the heart, it gives us information about the frequency of the heart.

The pulse rate depends on the body's need for blood. A small body loses more heat than a large body, and therefore it needs accelerated blood circulation. Therefore, the pulse of small birds reaches almost 200 beats! A cat's pulse is about 130 in a human - about 75 in a horse - 35 an elephant's pulse is only 25 beats.

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