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national birth conception

Russian day of conception.

food meat fast food quantity

One fast food burger can have meat from 100 different cows.

animal cruelty historical

The 1700's London zoo admission deal.

figure game

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

food alternative hot spice

Most supermarket wasabi is actually horseradish.

sport politics history

the first olympic marathon gold medalist told hittler that he hoped he won't start a war.

space liquid tension 🌎

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.

space writing gravity 🌎

pens won’t work in space.

space chemistry gas smell 🌎

The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.

space moon size 🌎

Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is half the size of Pluto.

sport figure sacrifice

Roberto Clemente.

study life kiss

Men who kissed their wives before leaving for work live longer.

planet space orbit gravity 🌎

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.

space sound 🌎

Space is completely silent.

space size relativity

The Sun weighs about 330,000 times more than Earth.

world phenomenon natural

Frozen Methane Bubble.

mother birth food motherhood

Your Favorite Foods May be Your Baby’s Favorite.

environment volunteer change

The waste warriors, a group of volunteers in India.

world border conflict

India And China Have A "Border Clash" Every So Often.

social authority experiment

People’s willingness to obey authority figures.

child learning experiment

Bobo Doll Experiment, Nature vs. Nurture experiment.

social experiment love

The Schacter and Singer Experiment on Emotion.

space light speed

Light moves at the velocity of about 300,000 km a second.

space spin day 🌎

The Earth’s rotation is slowing slightly as time goes on.

nesting pregnancy insist

The Nesting Instinct.

fight police war

The Hot Springs Gunfight.

pilot aircraft failure test

in 1974, a trainee who failed to become a US Army pilot stole a helicopter.

galaxy space shape

There are three main types of galaxies.

space location planet 🌎

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

social attract experiment

The Halo Effect.

language official

English isn't the official language of the United States.

space diamond planet

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

food cake weight name

Pound cake got its name from its recipe.

space planet system

our solar system's planet configuration is unusual.

pregnancy glow

The “Pregnancy Glow” is Real.

food candy shine

Fruit flavored snacks shine because of car wax.

virus environment life

A liter of surface seawater typically contains 100 billion viruses.

space orbit spin 🌎

Scientists once believed that the same side of Mercury always faced the Sun.

bully community

Ken McElroy, the "Town Bully" of Skidmore.

world phenomenon

Danxia landforms.

space water moon

Water on the Earth’s Moon.

sport tennis history

In the beginning, tennis courts were hourglass-shaped.

time scale unit

A jiffy is an actual unit of time.

protest origins mother

Mother’s Day was originally a day of protest.

homeless study medical

Half of all homeless men had suffered a “traumatic” brain injury.

global natural water phenomenon

Calcifying Lakes.

sport tennis origins

Jeu de paume, The precursor of Tennis.

space distance supernovae 🌎

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

baby condition fear experiment

Unethical psychological experiments.

animal smart medical save

Ben, the Elephant that waited for the Doctor.

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