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natural phenomenon

Underwater River.

historical criminal law

An outlaw isn't any mere criminal.

world border conflict

India And China Have A "Border Clash" Every So Often.

bully community

Ken McElroy, the "Town Bully" of Skidmore.

space name god 🌎

Pluto is named after the Roman god of the underworld, not the Disney Dog.

light speed sun distance 🌎

Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.

study medicine

Homeopathic remedies are ineffective.

water pregnancy

Water Won’t Always Break.

space year orbit 🌎

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

world phenomenon

Danxia landforms.

figure game

Creator of Super Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, is forbidden to go to work with a bicycle.

space chemistry gas smell 🌎

The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.

space name history 🌎

Uranus was originally called “George’s Star”.

animal rare phenomenon

A cannibalistic ant colony.

space moon orbit 🌎

We always see the same side of the Moon.

animal smart

The power outage caused by an octopus named Otto.

national birth conception

Russian day of conception.

health child radiation

Quaker Oats fed radioactive Oats to mentally handicapped children.

social psychological pressure experiment

The Asch Conformity Study.

world phenomenon

Volcanic Lightning.

effect social experiment

The problematic Hawthorne Effect.

food expensive

The most expensive pizza in the world.

sport speed tennis figure

The fastest server in men's tennis.

fight police war

The Hot Springs Gunfight.

war history nation

The Nepalese call to action.

challenge health

The dangers of the Cinnamon challenge.

medical health female figure

in 1918, Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized.

animal human cruelty historical

Carl Hagenbeck's "human zoos".

space comet historical document 🌎

the appearance of Halley’s Comet.

animal migration

Red Crab Migration, Christmas Island.

pregnancy glow

The “Pregnancy Glow” is Real.

space shape

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the first celestial object identified as being spiral.

sport match time tennis

11 hours and 5 minutes for one match.

space signal radio

In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.

food cook bake hole recipe

Crackers have holes in them for a reason.

sport food tennis

A yearly order of 27 tons of Kent strawberries.

planet space orbit gravity 🌎

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.

sport tennis female history

the First Fed Cup.

global natural water phenomenon

Calcifying Lakes.

mountain tall space

The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, located on Mars.

comet core name space

The center of a comet is called a “nucleus”.

space diamond planet

There is a planet half the radius of the Earth with a surface made up of diamonds.

galaxy space shape

There are three main types of galaxies.

world language statistics

Portuguese, not Spanish, is the predominately spoken language in South America.

pilot aircraft failure test

in 1974, a trainee who failed to become a US Army pilot stole a helicopter.

food alternative hot spice

Most supermarket wasabi is actually horseradish.

phenomenon animal shelter

Fields of Web.

park urban small

the worlds smallest park.

space orbit day speed 🌎

A day on Mercury is equivalent to 58 Earth days.

space light speed

Light moves at the velocity of about 300,000 km a second.

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