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science!

The word "Scientist" first appeared in 1833.

Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually
seen by a telescope.

The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .
000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles.

Saturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than all the known reserves
on Earth.

Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings!

Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside. The average strawberry has 200
seeds!

Banana is an Arabic word for fingers!

Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million
years ago!

Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million
years ago!

Upsilon Andromeda B also only face one side to its star. One side is hot as lava while the other
one is cold below freezing.

The furthest manmade object is Voyager 1. It has messages for aliens on-board.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest and driest continent on Earth.

63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.

Olympus moon, which is 3 times higher than the Mount Everest, is the highest mountain known
to man and is located on Mars.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.

Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.

Peladophobia refers to the fear of bald people.

Fear of clowns is called coulrophobia.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.

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Haphephobia is the fear of being touched.

Ophidiophobia is the abnormal fear of snakes.

Astraphobia or Brontophobia is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they honored soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.

The dark side of the Moon is actually turquoise.

The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and referring to the
tail.

Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics.

Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft.

Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe.

Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

Uranus has 27 known moons. Titania, the largest, is about half the size of our own moon. The
moons are all made of ice and rock.

Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300
asteroids.

The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon.

The word “organ” comes from an old Greek word, organon, which means “tool” or “instrument.”

The word “muscle” is from the Latin word musculus, or “little mouse.” The Romans thought a
flexing muscle looked like a mouse moving under the skin.

The word “lung” is from a German word meaning “light”; together two adult human lungs weigh
only 2.5 pounds (11.1kg).

The word "blood" is from the PIE root "bhlo-", which means "that which bursts out." This root is
also related to "bloma," (flower), which also "blossoms" outward.

"Onychophagia" is the medical name for nail biting.

The medical name for ear wax is "cerumen."

A person suffering from anosmia is unable to detect smells.

Ununoctium is the heaviest metal found so far.

The most abundant element on the Earth is Oxygen.

The surface of Mars is red because of the presence of iron oxide.

math!

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1089 x 9 = 9801.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.

The word 'fraction' derives from the Latin fractio - to break. However, there are continuous
fractions.

history!

Lady Peseshet is known to be the world's first known female physician. She practiced during the
time of the pyramids, which was the fourth dynasty.

Cleopatra married two of her younger brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.

The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."

Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first "flushable" toilet.

The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic.

Bananas were discovered by Alexander the Great in 327 B.C. when he conquered India.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

The patent number of the telephone is 174465.

Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, was the inventor of the toilet.

January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and
backward at the same time.

A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.

On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced.

The first Valentine candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the 1800's.

The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship.

In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.

The first African-American to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Ralph J. Bunche in 1950.

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The biggest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt but in… Mexico. It is called Cholula and is
currently covered in grass.

The name of Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata or canada, meaning
village or settlement.

Amman – the capital of Jordan, used to be called Philadelphia.

Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, can fit inside the Marianas Trench, the deepest part
of the ocean.

The largest recorded earthquake happened in Chile on May 22, 1960. It was a magnitude 9.5.

The deadliest known earthquake happened in China in 1556. It killed about 830,000 people.

c u r r en t e v e n t s !

The most disliked video on YouTube is Justin Bieber's "Baby," with over 4,400,000 dislikes.

YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and
Ask combined.

YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in
2014.

The First YouTube Video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, featuring its co-founder Jawed Karim at
the San Diego Zoo.

Apple was founded on April 1st, 1976 by Steven Paul Jobs, Steven Gary Wozniak and Ronald
Gerald Wayne.

Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds

Daryl Hannah is co creator of the board game Liebrary

Justin Bieber's middle name is Drew, his favorite color is blue and his super power wish is to fly.

Artist Billie Eillish, her full name is Billie Eillish Pirate Baird O'Connell

American Music Awards awarded Taylor Swift as the "Artist of the Decade" and the most
awarded artist on the show.

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2019 Miss World was from the country Jamaica named Anne-Marie Singh.

Cats Musical was the hit musical and written by T.S Eliot

2019 Miss Universe was from the country South Africa named Zuzibini Tonzi.

MMFF 2019 awarded Judy Anne Santos as the "Best Actress" in the movie Mindanao.

Harry Potter series was the highest-grossing series of all time.

Fifty Shades: Freed was the 3rd book from the novel "Fifty Shades"

Facebook creator was Mark Zucherburg

Titanic creator was James Cameron

Amazon creator was Jeff Bezos

SpaceX creator was Elon Musk

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