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.
Saturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than all the known reserves
on Earth.
Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside. The average strawberry has 200
seeds!
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.
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.
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Haphephobia is the fear of being touched.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon, they honored soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals.
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.
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 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.
math!
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1089 x 9 = 9801.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Fifty Shades: Freed was the 3rd book from the novel "Fifty Shades"