Which mythical character's gifts correlate with changes in the S&P 500 stock index? Detailed answer

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Which mythical character's gifts correlate with changes in the S&P 500 stock index?

In Western countries, all children know the tooth fairy, who gives money in exchange for lost milk teeth placed under the pillow. Since the early 2000s, Delta Dental has been conducting an annual study in the United States of the average amount that parents put under their pillows. With the exception of one year, the downward or upward trend in this amount is strongly correlated with the change in the S&P 500 stock index. In other words, the gifts of the tooth fairy can be considered a mini-indicator of the state of affairs in the entire American economy.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Which bird lays the largest eggs?

Usually, the larger the bird, the larger the egg it lays, but the size of the eggs is not always related to the size of its "parents". The size of the egg depends on the amount of food needed to feed the growing embryo until it hatches from the egg.

Birds that are able to take care of themselves almost immediately after hatching from the egg develop into large eggs, which store a large enough amount of nutritious yolk so that the chick hatches already sufficiently developed. The chicks that hatch blind and helpless are born from small eggs in which the supply of food is insufficient for their full development.

Not all bird eggs are similar in shape to chicken ones: some birds lay oblong, round and even pear-shaped eggs. Eggs laid in high places are usually shaped to prevent them from rolling as much as possible. As for the size of the eggs, the champion here is the ostrich. An ostrich egg can reach 15-17 cm in length and 13-15 cm in diameter, occupying the same volume as 12-18 chicken eggs! But ostrich eggs are the largest among the eggs that are laid by living birds.

In ancient times, there were birds, next to whose eggs, ostrich eggs would have seemed tiny. We are talking about the prehistoric legendary Roc bird, which was found in Madagascar. The egg shell of this bird, found by scientists, gives an idea of the size of the eggs themselves. They reached 33 cm in length and 23-26 cm in diameter. The volume of such an egg was equal to 8 liters, which is 6 times more than that of an ostrich egg and 150 times more than that of a chicken!

And the smallest testicles are hummingbirds. Some varieties of hummingbirds lay eggs as short as 6 mm long.

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