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In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP.

space system area ice 🌎

The Kuiper Belt, a region of our Solar System beyond Neptune.

space station speed 🌎

The International Space Station circles Earth every 92 minutes.

space speed galaxy

It would take a modern spacecraft 450,000,000 years to travel to the center of our galaxy.

social conflict experiment

Robbers Cave Experiment.

figure game

Creator of Super Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, is forbidden to go to work with a bicycle.

Wooly Mammoths

The Wooly Mammoth went extinct 4000 years ago.

inhibitory effects of salinity on root length and the number of roots.

history politics

King Zog of Albania.

art damage history

The Last Supper by Leonardo has a large missing section at the bottom.

drink life Expiration

You can find peanuts in dynamite.

sleep burn fat dinner food 🌎

Not eating before bed burns fat.

food vegetable color

Cauliflower comes in multiple colors.

theoldmeadows books

Nottinghamshire Steam Railways in the 1960s Compiled by Gordon Wright.

music figure name alias

Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.

asd.

Programming Variable Naming Hungarian Notation

Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian notation) is brain damaged—the compiler knows the types anyway...

historical criminal law

An outlaw isn't any mere criminal.

food genetics similarity natural

Humans DNA is 40% the same as bananas.

philosophy figure

Aristotle.

environmental economics figure

EF Schumacher, Green economist.

environmental economics figure

EF Schumacher, Green economist.

historical town

The preserved and dynamic gold-rush town.

art airport worth

$100 billion worth of artworks in storage.

food cake weight name

Pound cake got its name from its recipe.

medical history patient

HIV's Patient 0.

food meat cultural diet global india 👳‍♀️

India has the lowest meat consumption in the world.

sport figure

Kurt Warner.

animal baby size 👶🏿

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

political figure

Margaret Thatcher.

Pet Food dog cat meat

According to a recent study, if American cats & dogs were their own country, they'd rank 5th in global meat consumption.

health psychology empathy

High social anxiety = high empathy.

Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division.

philosophy

Determinism.

internet psychology

Internet trolls are likely to be sadists.

space location planet 🌎

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

space signal radio

In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.

social attract experiment

The Halo Effect.

historical female figure

Hattie McDaniel.

animal farm environmental

Regenerative agriculture.

world language

Detailed Map of the Turkic languages.

medical psychology research

Autism is not actually on the rise.

environmental political figure

Jonathan Porritt.

music profit

Norman Greenbaum wrote the song, "Spirit in The Sky" in only 15 minutes.

animal sleep behavior

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep.

number math language global

"Billion" is the European name for "Trillion" in the US.

army training

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

mountain tall space

The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, located on Mars.

Israel should declare sovereignty.

philosophy figure poet

“This too shall pass”.