There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in our solar system.
There are more than 1,600 major volcanoes across the surface of Venus
2020
The U.S. Army promoted Donald Duck to the rank of Sergeant and retired him from active duty.
Donald was never officially separated from service in any of his wartime cartoons or comics.
2017
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
Robbers Cave Experiment.
This experiment, which studied group conflict, is considered by most to be outside the lines of what is considered ethical
2008
Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld, not the Disney Dog.
The name for the planet was suggested by Venetia Burney,at the time an eleven-year old British schoolgirl
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Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is half the size of Pluto.
The same surfaces of Charon and Pluto always face each other, which is known as mutual tidal locking
2020
Halley’s Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.
The famous comet was last seen on 9th February, 1986 and only orbits the Earth once every 75 – 76 years.
2020
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
This is because Pluto does not gravitationally dominate the neighborhood around its orbit
2019
Pluto is smaller than the United States.
If you were to walk around the equator of Pluto it would be the same distance as walking from London to Denver
2020
Red Dwarf stars that are low in mass can burn continually for up to 10 trillion years.
A Red Dwarf is a small and cool star in a later stage of its life
2020
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.
This is because of surface tension, which is an imbalance of intermolecular attractive forces.
2013
Memory can be easily distorted.
The car crash experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participants’ memories of an accident
2014
The problematic Hawthorne Effect.
a simple premise that human subjects in an experiment change their behavior simply because they are being studied
2020
In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.
This means that when the signal started its journey, Earth didn’t even exist.
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