free-ranging domestic cats are the top threat to wildlife.
killing an estimated 1.3 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals annually in the US
2020
The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.
Discovered by the IRAM radio telescope, a chemical called ethyl formate which gives rum its distinct smell and raspberries their distinct flavor.
2020
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.
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.
This is because of surface tension, which is an imbalance of intermolecular attractive forces.
2013
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
Queen Elizabeth can’t sit on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones.
An old tradition prohibits the reigning English monarch from sitting on a foreign throne.
2019
American and British Sign Language are not mutually intelligible.
While English speakers can understand each other, deaf people from different English speaking countries are unable to
2019
Peter Van Inwagen.
Presented a famous challenge to free will. If we assume that evrything has a cause (that is, we accept Determinism), it means our current actions also has causes in the past - and these causes has other causes that occurred prior to them. We can easily see that this goes ad nauseam until we reach causes which occured before we were born. This means that our current actions are dictated by factors beyond our control, meaning we have no free will to act.
1975
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
This is because Pluto does not gravitationally dominate the neighborhood around its orbit
2019
The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if.
To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if our ear drum was the size of England, it could detect the weight of a banana on it.
2020
The decline of the woolly mammoth could have increased temperatures by up to 0.2 °C (0.36 °F) at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
Humans have been harming the environment for thousands of years.
2020
Pluto is smaller than the United States.
If you were to walk around the equator of Pluto it would be the same distance as walking from London to Denver
2020
Memory can be easily distorted.
The car crash experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participants’ memories of an accident
2014
The Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft that visited Mercury.
It was launched at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1973, and flew by Venus 3 months later.
2020
