Earth’s Moon is by far the largest and most massive satellite relative to its parent planet in our solar system.
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One day on Venus lasts 5,832 hours. The same as one Monday on Earth :)
The only scientific paper ever published by Bill Gates was a possible solution to a mathematical problem about pancake flipping.
Even if a Nuclear Winter occurred, it would be followed by a Nuclear Summer
The Eiffel Tower is 700 tons heavier today than when it was built, purely because of 130 years of layered paint.
Earth receives enough sunlight every day to meet all of humanity's energy needs 10,000 times over
For decades, Skewes’ Number was the largest number ever used in a serious math proof. It’s roughly 10^10^10^34 – a number so large it exceeds the total number of atoms in the observable universe, several times over.
Petrol in North America has a lower octane rating than the rest of the world because the US and Canada have a stricter way of measuring it. "Regular" gasoline sold in the US as 87 octane would actually be considered 92 in the rest of the world and "midgrade" fuel sold as 89 octane would be 95.
Zero is just a portal between positive and negative numbers.
Life tip: If you can’t figure out how something goes back in it’s box, look and see if there’s a YouTube unboxing video.
Assembling electronics in a factory (Hungary, 1966)
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
1 gram of activated charcoal has a surface area of over 3,000 m²
There is a rare type of very hard wood called ‘Lignum Vitae’. It’s so hard that it was used to make propeller shaft bearings for nuclear submarines.
On Feb 25, 1896, Nikola Tesla patented Alternating Motor.
The Clearest Image of Venus's Surface, By a Lander that Melted After 2 Hours. On March 1, 1982, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 13 landed on the fiery surface of Venus and sent back the clearest images we’ve ever received from that hellish world.
Life tip: Need to divide something fairly between 2 kids? Let one kid make the split and let the other kid choose the partition.
If engineers are wrong, things explode. That’s why we double-check.
Space fact: If you were driving at 75 miles per hour (121 kmh), it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.
Life tip: Buy yourself a fire extinguisher. It's better to have something you don't need than to need something you don't have.
Imagine using AI supercomputers to understand what dogs and cats are saying — instead of putting everyone in a bikini.
A negative thinker has many problems to one solution. A positive thinker has many solutions to one problem.
NASA's Voyager 1 space probe was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2.
Scientists renamed 27 human genes in 2020 because Microsoft Excel kept auto-converting their names into dates, causing widespread errors in published genetic research.
When you look at the sun, you see how it appeared 8.5 minutes ago.