Who spent $2500 a month on rubber bands to tie wads of cash? Detailed answer

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Who spent $2500 a month on rubber bands to tie wads of cash?

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's cartel handled huge amounts of cash. According to his brother Roberto, they spent $2500 a month just on rubber bands to tie bundles of bills. Approximately 10% of cash was lost due to rats biting off the corners of banknotes in vaults.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Who and how first showed that air has weight?

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In the first, qualitative experiment, Galileo, having achieved by thermal rarefaction of air in a flask with a long neck, carefully closed with a cork, made sure that if this vessel was allowed to float in water, then it would sink less than if the air was not rarefied.

In other quantitative experiments, Galileo used a pump to pump excess air into a flask, in addition to that normally contained in it, and measure the increase in the weight of the flask. Using ingenious tricks, Galileo measured the volume of air pumped into the flask, and based on this result determined the ratio of the specific gravity of air to the specific gravity of water. He got a value of 1:400. If we compare this value with the true one (1:773) and take into account what means Galileo then had at his disposal, then the accuracy of his measurements seems remarkable.

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