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space food 🌎

A corned beef sandwich was smuggled into space.

Israel should declare sovereignty.

nesting pregnancy insist

The Nesting Instinct.

Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions have played every Thanksgiving day game since 1934. It has become an uninterrupted franchise tradition.

Water is a key resource that limits plant growth, and its availability is initially sensed by root tissues.

tennis speed sport figure

The fastest server in women's tennis.

food candy shine

Fruit flavored snacks shine because of car wax.

economics island

The Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money.

attention experiment

Selective Attention / Invisible Gorilla Experiment.

pirate sight jewelry 🏴‍☠️

Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight.

world language history

Canary Islands are actually named after dogs.

space science political female figure

Valentina Tereshkova.

philosophy

The Universe is change, and life is an opinion.

war historical loss

The statue of Nemesis (goddess who punishes the arrogant) in Marathon, Greece.

police unit special animal insect

The NYPD has a beekeeping unit.

political figure

Margaret Thatcher.

medicine psychological depression

11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.

sport club league

The smallest football (soccer) league in the world.

philosophy figure

Karl Marx.

sarcasm band

Sarcasm is one of the first Slovenian metal bands that broke into the mainstream.

work philosophy

the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”.

food animal use origins bird

Bird saliva is a delicacy in China.

poetry female figure

Gwendolyn Brooks.

media figure famous

Marilyn Monroe.

environmental figure

Richard Sandbrook.

history society family

The Likov family Lived in the Siberian wilderness completely isolated for 40 years.

social experiment love

The Schacter and Singer Experiment on Emotion.

space distance measurement unit

The distance between the Sun & Earth is defined as an Astronomical Unit.

historical animal

Andrew Jackson's Loudly swearing pet parrot.

historical criminal law

An outlaw isn't any mere criminal.

army equipment game controller 🌎

The United States Navy is using Xbox controllers for their periscopes.

space year orbit 🌎

Neptune takes nearly 165 Earth years to make one orbit of the Sun.

animal language history

The oldest known Euphemism.

health day week heart attack

Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.

nature

The Sputnik virophage is a parasite of a parasite of a parasite.

animal alcohol

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

music visual

Piano Key Frequencies for Musical Pieces.

Evidence for brain glucose dysregulation in Alzheimer’s disease.

historical figure woman

Gertrude Ederle.

unique phenomenon natural

Morning Glory Clouds.

weather rare

Fish are rarely electrocuted from lightning.

food fact color taste

Froot Loops are all the same flavor.

natural phenomenon stone

Sailing Stones.

national birth conception

Russian day of conception.

human right figure

Helen Bamber.

sport tennis origins

Jeu de paume, The precursor of Tennis.

philosophy figure poet

“This too shall pass”.

history politics

Descendants of the Ming Dynasty, who Lost Power in 1644, Still hold Vast Wealth and Power over Modern-Day China.

facebook movie

Released in 2010, The Social Network is a film that chronicles the creation of and drama surrounding Facebook in its early days.

space moon quantity size

There are 79 known moons orbiting Jupiter.

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