There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand in the world.
There are 10 times more stars in the night sky, with 70 sextillion stars being visible.
2012
Sylvester Stallone holds the record for the most Raspberry awards.
with a whopping 14 nominations for worst actor and a further 3 for worst supporting actor
2020
Cursillos in Christianity is an apostolic movement of the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in Majorca, Spain 1944.
The Cursillo focuses on showing Christian laypeople how to become effective Christian leaders over the course of a three-day weekend.
2020
William Safire's speech if Apollo 11 became Stranded on the Moon..
"Mission Control would use their euphemism, 'close down communication,' and the men would have to either starve or commit suicide,"
2019
in 1979, it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes.
Even Chile’s Atacama Desert(the worlds driest) experienced significant snowfall when a cold front from Antarctica made a rare trip over the Andes
2016
pens won’t work in space.
Normal pens work by gravity pulling the ink towards the pen’s nib. As there’s no gravity in space, the ink doesn’t get pulled to the nib.
2020
Lilian Wyles.
Wyles was a pioneer in the inclusion of women in the Met Police and for the more sensitive treatment of female victims of sexual assaults
2020
There are 88 recognized star constellations in our night sky.
These 88 constellations cover the Earth’s night sky and can be observed from the southern and northern hemispheres.
2012
Scottish scientists were awarded £250,000 in funding to breed sheep who fart less.
They will attempt to create more animals who have the least impact on the environment
2019
Portuguese Man o’ War is actually Not a Jellyfish..
It’s actually smaller organisms that can’t survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
The ISS is visible to more than 90% of the Earth’s population.
In the night sky it appears as a fast-moving star crossing from horizon to horizon.
2020
In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could see through people’s clothes.
The cameras had a special lens that use's infrared light to use as night vision.
2016
french fries originated in belgium.
The French and Belgians have an ongoing dispute about where fries were invented, with both countries claiming ownership
2020
Italian banker, Gilberto Baschiera is Considered a Modern-day Robin Hood..
For 7 years, he secretly diverted 1 million euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans.
Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
when data from over 156,000 hospital admissions for a heart attack over seven years were studied They discovered differences in heart attack timing.
2017
Scientists once believed that the same side of Mercury always faced the Sun.
In 1965 astronomers discovered that the planet rotates three times during every two orbits it makes.
2008
A fitness app accidentally revealed the location of military bases around the world.
The app uses GPS to track users activitity, this information was used create a heat map
2018
