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Science & Nature
Fascinating facts about physics, biology, space, geology, and the natural world.
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Quarternary Twins are When Two Babies are Both Cousins and Genetically Siblings. This Happens When Two Identical Twin Sisters Have Children with Two Identical Twin Brothers.
November 16, 2022
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House Termites Made It Over to England, But a 27-Year Government Funded Program Eradicated Them in 2021.
November 14, 2022
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Haumea is an Egg-Shaped Dwarf Planet That Can Be Found in Our Solar System. Its Shape is Due the to Incredibly Fast Rotation, and It Even Has Two Moons.
November 9, 2022
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The Largest Living Organism as of 2022 is the Poseidon’s Ribbon Weed. It Spawned from a Single Seed Around 4,500 Years Ago and is Currently 200 Square Kilometers in Size.
November 9, 2022
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A Royal Horticultural Society Test Building Covered in Ivy Stayed 7.2 Celsius Cooler than Non-Covered Buildings. The Leaves Also Kept the Walls Dry which Lowered Humidity and Protected it from Corrosion.
November 9, 2022
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Denny is the Only Known Individual Whose Parents were Two Different Species of Human. She is Known as a Hybrid hominin.
November 1, 2022
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The Fumes from the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE Was So Hot That It Turned One Victim's Brain Into Glass.
October 29, 2022
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Official Air Temperatures That are Used in Weather Applications are Taken in the Shade and Not Under Sunlight.
October 28, 2022
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Rust has an Estimated Worldwide Annual Cost of $2.5 Trillion. By Implementing Corrosion Prevention Best Practices Global Savings Can Reach About $875 Billion.
October 27, 2022
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The US Government Spends Billions to Keep the Mississippi River from Changing its Course and Destroying New Orleans.
October 24, 2022
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In 1989, Scientists at IBM Succeeded in Arranging 35 Individual Xenon Atoms on a Substrate of Chilled Crystal of Nickel to Spell Out the Initials “IBM.” It was the First Time Atoms Had Been Positioned on a Flat Surface.
October 18, 2022
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Humans Have the Highest Daytime Visual Acuity of Any Mammal. However, We Have Relatively Poor Night Vision.
October 17, 2022
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William Rankin is One of Two People to Have Ever Survived Falling Through a Thunderstorm Cloud. He Fell for Almost 40 Minutes, Suffered Serious Injuries, Including Frosbite.
October 13, 2022
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The Evil Number Known as the Belphegor’s Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001 is a Palindromic Prime with 666 in the Middle and 13 Zeros on Each Side. It is Named After the Prince of Hell.
October 7, 2022
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The Life Expectancy of Reinforced Concrete is About 50 to 100 Years.
October 2, 2022
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The Big Bang was Not Actually an Explosion that Happened in the Center of the Universe. In Fact, There is No Such Thing as the Center of the Universe. The Big Bang Happened and Has Been Happening Everywhere All at Once.
October 1, 2022
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John Aaron Saved the Apollo 12 Mission. He was the Engineer in the Control Room of NASA that Prevented the Astronauts of Apollo 12 from Aborting the Mission Seconds After Launching.
October 1, 2022
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If All the Spores of a Single Giant Puffball Mushroom Had a 100% Germination Success, Followed by the Same for Its Offspring, the Resulting Mass of Fungi Would Amount to 800 Times the Volume of Earth.
October 1, 2022
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A Plant Hopper, Issus coleoptratus, is the First Species Found to Have Functional Biological Gears.
September 28, 2022
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Mercury Sometimes Has a Double Sunrise Due to its Slow Rotation Around its Own Axis and its Uneven Orbital Path Around the Sun.
September 27, 2022
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