Showing posts with label amazing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazing. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The botched Coca-Cola heist of 2006

On a hot summer afternoon in 2006, Ibrahim Dimson walked swiftly through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport clutching a yellow Girl Scout cookie box stuffed with $30k in rolled-up $50 and $100 bills. Minutes earlier, he’d handed off an Armani Exchange duffle bag containing dozens of stolen Coca-Cola documents and a vial of a secret formula — all marked “highly confidential” — to “Jerry,” a man who claimed to be a Pepsi executive. Everything was going according to plan. Dimson and his inside source at Coke had hundreds of trade secrets they planned to sell to Pepsi, and this was just the beginning. But there was a just one problem: Jerry wasn’t who he claimed to be — and unbeknownst to Dimson and his accomplices, the shit was about to hit the fan.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Amazing Earth Facts


Age 4,550 Million Years
Mass 5.967 x 10 to the power 24 kg
Volume 1.083 x 10 to the power liters
Mean Density 5.518 kg/lt
Total Surface Area 510 million sq. km
Land Area 29.2% of the total surface area
Water Area 70.8% of the total surface area

Equatorial Diameter 12,755 km
Polar Diameter 12, 712 km

Escape Velocity 11.2 km/sec
Highest Land Point Mount Everest (8,852 m)
Lowest Land Point Dead Sea (396m)

Greatest Ocean Depth Mariana Trench (11,033)
Equatorial Circumference 40,024 km
Polar Circumference 40,024 km
Mean Surface Temperature 14°C
Maximum distance from Sun (Aphelion) About 150 million km
Minimum distance from sun (Perihelion) About 147 million km

Rotation Speed 23 hrs, 56 min, 40.91 sec
Revolution Speed 365 days, 5 hrs, 45.51 sec

Dates when days & nights are equal
Mar, 21 (Vernal Equinox): Sept. 23 (Autumnal Equinox)

Dates of longest days and shortest nights
June 21 (Summer Solstice): Dec, 22 (Winter Solstice)