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social experiment love

The Schacter and Singer Experiment on Emotion.

food medicine history

Ketchup used to be used as a medicine.

sport tennis female history

the First Fed Cup.

world phenomenon

Volcanic Lightning.

medical psychology research

Autism is not actually on the rise.

social psychological pressure experiment

The Asch Conformity Study.

sport tennis animal

Rufus The Wimbledon anty pigeon Hawk.

space orbit spin 🌎

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

food cake weight name

Pound cake got its name from its recipe.

sport figure sacrifice

Pat Tillman.

memory experiment

Magical Number Seven.

space liquid tension 🌎

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

food cook bake hole recipe

Crackers have holes in them for a reason.

medical health female figure

in 1918, Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized.

space light speed

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

sport figure sacrifice

Roberto Clemente.

space gravity black hole

When a star passes too close to a black hole.

fine law voting vote australia

Voteing fine.

animal alcohol

When it's too hot in Australia, the nectar in certain flowers will ferment and turn into alcohol.

attention experiment

Selective Attention / Invisible Gorilla Experiment.

historical criminal law

An outlaw isn't any mere criminal.

animal medical anatomy

The blue whale heart rate.

animal war

The two-week long lion-hyena war.

space light speed time moon 🌎

It takes the light only 1.3 seconds to travel from the Moon to Earth.

mountain tall sacred

Kangchenjunga, the tallest mountain until a survey of Everest, has never been fully climbed.

sport match time tennis

11 hours and 5 minutes for one match.

space system area ice 🌎

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

natural phenomenon stone

Sailing Stones.

animal migration

Monarch Butterfly Migration.

sport speed tennis figure

The fastest server in men's tennis.

space shape

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

test science

In 2008, 270 scientists re-ran 100 studies.

food origins

traditional Bavarian pretzels are made with lye (sodium hydroxide).

space distance supernovae 🌎

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

space size weight water 🌎

Saturn can float in water.

world phenomenon

Nacreous Clouds, Antarctic.

space black hole picture 🌎

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

space astronaut name origins 🌎

The word “astronaut” means “star sailor”.

astronaut career record day 🌎

Gennady Padalka has spent more time in space than anyone else.

fight police war

The Hot Springs Gunfight.

space station 🌎

The International Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space.

space 🌎 season orbit

A season on Uranus is equivalent to 21 Earth years.

world monarch queen

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

psychology social believe experiment

Cognitive Dissonance Experiments.

space moon orbit 🌎

Neptune’s moon, Triton, orbits the planet backwards.

mountain tall space

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

sport tennis origins

Jeu de paume, The precursor of Tennis.

prize medicine figure

Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize.

space quantity galaxy star ⛹🏻‍♀️

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

study health creative walk

Walking boosts creative inspiration.

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