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space system area ice 🌎

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

space black hole picture 🌎

The first ever black hole photographed is 3 million times the size of Earth.

food health radiation

Dosing food in radiation for preservation and sterilization.

food color addition white 🕵️‍♂️

Ranch dressing is dyed.

space

There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in our solar system.

social consensus experiment

People can incorrectly conclude a “false consensus”.

space drive ring 🌎

It would take 258 days to drive around Saturn’s rings.

animal smart medical save

Ben, the Elephant that waited for the Doctor.

space 🌎 season orbit

A season on Uranus is equivalent to 21 Earth years.

space liquid tension 🌎

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

space speed galaxy

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

star vision night sky quantity 🌎

There are 88 recognized star constellations in our night sky.

world phenomenon

Danxia landforms.

phone study

Phantom vibration syndrome.

world monarch queen

Queen Elizabeth II is 36.4% of the world's current monarchs.

space toy 🌎

Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story has actually been to outer space.

underwater phenomenon

Underwater Crop Circles.

space day time

The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds long.

nesting pregnancy insist

The Nesting Instinct.

unique phenomenon natural

Morning Glory Clouds.

mountain tall space

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

figure game

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

food medicine history

Ketchup used to be used as a medicine.

space animal astronaut history 🌎

The first living mammal to go into space.

world language statistics

Portuguese, not Spanish, is the predominately spoken language in South America.

space quantity galaxy star ⛹🏻‍♀️

There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.

cold phenomenon

white rainbow.

social power experiment psychology

Stanford Prison Study.

animal cruelty historical

The 1700's London zoo admission deal.

space location planet 🌎

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

space shape

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the first celestial object identified as being spiral.

baby newborn bone

Newborns Have More Bones.

fight police war

The Hot Springs Gunfight.

study life kiss

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

sport figure

Kurt Warner.

social media study psychology

More Facebook usage is Less satisfaction.

health psychology study

Suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented.

study medicine

Homeopathic remedies are ineffective.

prize equal sport tennis

Equal prize for all.

space gravity black hole

When a star passes too close to a black hole.

test science

In 2008, 270 scientists re-ran 100 studies.

pregnancy smell hormonal

Pregnant women have better Sense of Smell.

animal smart

The power outage caused by an octopus named Otto.

food candy shine

Fruit flavored snacks shine because of car wax.

space astroid help gravity 🌎

A large percentage of asteroids are pulled in by Jupiter’s gravity.

space name god 🌎

Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld, not the Disney Dog.

rocket space satellite 🌎

The Black Arrow.

world phenomenon

The Spotted Lake, Osoyoos.

space astronaut name origins 🌎

The word “astronaut” means “star sailor”.

unique phenomenon natural

The Fairy Circles in Namibia.

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