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political figure

Margaret Thatcher.

protest origins mother

Mother’s Day was originally a day of protest.

space star light 🌎

Stars twinkle because light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.

world record

Ashton Kutcher holds a Guinness World Record.

space moon orbit 🌎

Neptune’s moon, Triton, orbits the planet backwards.

space diamond planet

There is a planet half the radius of the Earth with a surface made up of diamonds.

sport figure

Althea Gibson.

child learning experiment

Bobo Doll Experiment, Nature vs. Nurture experiment.

Wooly Mammoths

The Wooly Mammoth went extinct 4000 years ago.

philosophy figure

Niccolo Machiavelli.

philosophy

David Lewis.

food cake weight name

Pound cake got its name from its recipe.

space size dot storm

Jupiter’s Red Spot is shrinking.

space year orbit 🌎

Neptune takes nearly 165 Earth years to make one orbit of the Sun.

memex internet creative

In “As We May Think” (1949), Vannevar Bush imagines the “memex”, a desk-like device where people could search through a library of articles.

education figure female

Maria Montessori.

health brain

In rare cases, traumatic brain injuries can cause FAS, or foreign-accent syndrome.

law battle

the owner of nissan.com and nissan.net was in a 20 year legal battle against Nissan Motor.

asdsad.

war music female figure

Vera Lynn.

bird animal window accident

Millions of birds a year die from smashing into windows.

animal science nature

David Mech, who came up with the Concept of the Alpha Wolf, Later Rejected the Notion.

study health creative walk

Walking boosts creative inspiration.

building material historical

Concrete Used in Ancient Rome.

army training

As part of military training recruits are sprayed with pepper spray and then required to engage in combat.

law history judgment

Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights.

space location planet 🌎

Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars are known as the “Inner Planets”.

movie money

Rush Hour Gangster Protection.

world record

Guinness records are set by people who apply for them.

movie award

every live-action Star Wars Movie has been nominated for an Oscar.

space distance supernovae 🌎

The first Supernovae observed outside of our own galaxy was in 1885.

historical war female figure

Irena Sendler.

space day time

The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds long.

life

Fashion week in Shanghai is going Digital.

smell taste food sense

An apple and onion taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

green environmental technology

China Has 421,000 Electric Buses.

media figure

Oprah Winfrey.

food trash law fine

Throwing food away is illegal in Seattle.

band music animal

Waldo, a grey parrot, lead singer of a death metal band.

nature science animal

Portuguese Man o’ War is actually Not a Jellyfish..

The findings of this review highlight the therapeutic potential of combination of nutritionally adequate diet and physical activity in preventing or delaying the symptoms associated with AD pathology.

animal environmental

Parrots native to Argentina Roaming around New Jersey for over 30 years..

medicine psychological depression

11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.

funny politics

The US Senate Candy Desk.

food water percentage

Potatoes are 80% water.

drink glow dark light

Tonic water glows in the dark.

science light

Physicist Lene Hau lead a team in 2001 that was the First to Completely Stop a beam of Light.

animal environment fire

1.25 BILLION Animals Lost.

history book

Washington Never returned his book to the Library.

train police

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway has their own police department.

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