Why did Robin Hood get such a nickname? Detailed answer

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Why did Robin Hood get such a nickname?

According to legend, Robin Hood took from the rich and distributed the loot to the poor. However, the nickname Hood does not mean "good" at all, as it might seem at first glance, because in English it is written Hood and translates as "hood, hide with a hood" (which is a traditional element of Robin Hood's clothing).

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What weighs more - the food consumed by a person per day, or the air that he inhales over the same period of time?

The weight of air inhaled and exhaled by a person during the day is easy to calculate.

With each breath, a person introduces about half a liter of air into their lungs. This is done on average 16 times per minute. This means that in one minute about 8 liters of air manage to visit the body. This is approximately 480 liters per hour, and 11 liters per day. This volume of air at normal pressure weighs about 500 kilograms.

Thus, per day, a person passes through his body much more air than food: on average, during this time, the body consumes about 3 kilograms of food (solid and liquid). However, if we take into account that the inhaled air consists of 4/5 nitrogen, which is useless for breathing, it turns out that the daily weight of its remaining components is approximately equal to the daily weight of the food consumed.

The given estimates are a convincing argument in favor of the need for fairly frequent air renewal in a residential area.

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