There is a planet half the radius of the Earth with a surface made up of diamonds.
55 Cancri e has a mass eight times that of Earth’s despite having half the radius
2020
It is hypothesized that water movement reduced the local ethylene concentration on the root surface and consequently inhibited root hair development of sorghum seedlings grown in the mat system.
Samuel J. Seymour, a five-year-old boy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination.
At 96 Seymour was a guest on the TV show. he felt bad for Booth, thinking Booth had fallen out of the box
2020
Astronauts can’t burp in space.
The lack of gravity in space means the air in astronaut’s stomach doesn’t separate and rise up from ingested food.
2018
Gilens and Page find that a policy has a higher likelihood of being addopted if it is supported by interest groups and economic elites. Support by the middle class does not affect the likelihood of policy adoption. 2014
Researchers have Observed that the Rotation axes of central supermassive black holes in a sample, are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years..
The rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web.
The Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money.
They use large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of calcite, some as large as 13 ft in diameter
2018
Sun Mingming, the tallest basketball player in the world.
Along with his wife Xu Yan, is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living couple
2020
Selfies kill more people than sharks.
Between 2011 and 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period.
2019
MTV’s '16 and Pregnant' contributed to a record decline in U.S. teen pregnancy.
Teen pregnancy dropped by 5.7% within 18 months of the show airing.
2014
High social anxiety = high empathy.
A study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other people’s states of mind
2011
Only two ships have been sunk by submarines since WW2.
the INS Khukri during the Indo-Pakistani War and the ARA General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands war.
2020
The problematic Hawthorne Effect.
a simple premise that human subjects in an experiment change their behavior simply because they are being studied
2020
the United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army".
during the WW2, soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions
2020
John Mackie.
Tried to define causation in terms of sufficient and necessary conditions, but he tried to do so without appealing to complex metaphysical entities (such as Lewsi's possible worlds).
To do so, Mackie introduced the term "INUS Conditions". Event A is a cause of Event B if A is an INUS condition for B: A is an "Insufficient yet Necessary" condition for some other "Unnecessary yet Sufficient" condition for B.
In simpler words: If A was a necessary part of another event C (C could not occur without A), and C is sufficient to bring upon B (C is enough to bring upon B, but B could occur in other ways as well), then A is a cause of B.
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