Waldo, a grey parrot, lead singer of a death metal band.
Hatebeak doesn't tour/play live because it would be "absolute torture for the bird to experience decibels at those levels.”
2014
Humans DNA is 40% the same as bananas.
think of human DNA as a blueprint of a ranch home and banana DNA as that of a colonial-style home. In each house, a bunch of things are similar but the end products are both quite different.
2019
In 1993 there was a Proposal to build an Advertising Billboard in Outer Space that would Appear roughly the same Size and Brightness as the moon.
The project didn't meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.
Researchers have Observed that the Rotation axes of central supermassive black holes in a sample, are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years..
The rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web.
There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.
Out of all the known galaxies, the Milky Way is the one that contains the most stars.
2017
Stars twinkle because light is disrupted as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.
Their light must pass through pockets of Earth's atmosphere that vary in temperature and density
2012
President Harry Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark as the first female Treasurer in 1949.
Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman
2020
Virginia Woolf.
Writing Mrs Dalloway, where she skewered the role of ‘the perfect housewife’ and sowed the seeds for the feminist movement of the 1970s
2020
Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.
The Photons emitted from the Sun’s surface travel at the speed of light to reach our eyes in only 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
2013
Phosphate (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. Roots employ adaptive mechanisms to forage for P in soil. Root hair elongation is particularly important since P is immobile. Here we report that auxin plays a critical role promoting root hair growth in Arabidopsis in response to low external P.
More Phosphate less root hairs
The Sun makes a full rotation once every 25 – 35 days.
one full rotation equals one full day. However, our gargantuan sun takes 25 – 35 Earth days to make one full rotation!
2020
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP.
The biggest unsolved mystery in Computer Science explained, the question that will earn 1M dollars to the first person to prove the answer. If answered as yes, this question will change the world of Computer Science as we know it today.
2009
The Icelandic language has changed very little from its roots.
Modern Icelandics can still read texts written in the 10th Century with relative ease.
2020
Triton is gradually getting closer to the planet it orbits.
Scientists believe that when Triton eventually gets too close to Neptune, it will be torn apart by the planet’s gravity
2020
Potatoes played an important role in economic growth in the 18th & 19th centuries.
The introduction of the potato explains the 25–26% of the increase in old world population
2011
There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in our solar system.
There are more than 1,600 major volcanoes across the surface of Venus
2020
