Hot Stove facts
While investigating facts about Hot Stove, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1957, a terminal cancer patient was given a worthless drug that caused his tumors to “melt like snowballs on a hot stove.” When he found out it was proven worthless, his cancer returned. He was given a placebo version and it went away again. Got truth again and died.
Einstein explained Relativity as "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 5 of the best facts about Hot Stove I managed to collect.
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Pyrex bowls will explode if placed on a hot stove
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The yellow flame of a candle is literally just hot air. Like how a hot stove element glows red, the candle flame is air at such a high temperature that it glows.
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The first illustration depicting a “Rube Goldberg Machine” was an Automatic Weight Reducing Machine in 1914 using components such as a doughnut, bomb, wax, balloon and hot stove to trap an obese person in a sound and food proof prison, who had to lose weight before wriggling free.
