Nuts are shelled by soaking in water (salt water, probably) for 24 hours, then the nuts are boiled for 5 minutes. The boiling softens the shell, and makes cracking (by hand or machine) much easier. Nuts that are to be sold as blanched or sliced nuts, may be boiled again, before blanching and/or slicing.
A parsec is an astronomical unit of measurement that is equivalent to 3.26 light years distance, or the distance photons will travel in vacuum over the period of 3.26 years.
One gigaparsec (Gpc) is one billion parsecs â one of the largest units of length commonly used. One gigaparsec is about 3.26 billion light-years, or roughly 114 of the distance to the horizon of the observable universe (dictated by the cosmic background radiation).