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space moon orbit 🌎

Neptune’s moon, Triton, orbits the planet backwards.

application failure reveal

A fitness app accidentally revealed the location of military bases around the world.

history game

The game Rock Paper Scissors dates back to the Han Dynasty.

geography world country

Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan, the only double landlocked countries in the world.

animal war

The two-week long lion-hyena war.

cutlery research

Where have all the teaspoons gone?.

cold phenomenon

white rainbow.

sport history tennis

The yellow Tennis ball.

memory experiment

Magical Number Seven.

tennis speed sport figure

The fastest server in women's tennis.

food cake weight name

Pound cake got its name from its recipe.

health child radiation

Quaker Oats fed radioactive Oats to mentally handicapped children.

ocean research space 🌎

We know more about Mars and our Moon than we do about our oceans.

sport tennis origins

Jeu de paume, The precursor of Tennis.

newborn cry tears

Newborns Do Not Cry Tears.

national birth conception

Russian day of conception.

fight police war

The Hot Springs Gunfight.

effect social experiment

The problematic Hawthorne Effect.

war history nation

The Nepalese call to action.

space day spin

A day on Pluto is lasts for 153.6 hours long.

sport tennis female history

the First Fed Cup.

queen life monarch long

if she is still reigning by 2024, Queen Elizabeth II will become history's longest-reigning monarch.

world phenomenon

Volcanic Lightning.

animal cruelty historical

The 1700's London zoo admission deal.

space satellite first history 🌎

The Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft that visited Mercury.

space distance supernovae 🌎

The first Supernovae observed outside of our own galaxy was in 1885.

phenomenon animal shelter

Fields of Web.

study life kiss

Men who kissed their wives before leaving for work live longer.

pregnancy smell hormonal

Pregnant women have better Sense of Smell.

movie figure long career

Fay McKenzie's 100 year career.

animal smart medical save

Ben, the Elephant that waited for the Doctor.

space mark moon

Footprints left on the Moon won’t disappear.

food old preserve

honey doesn't spoil even after thousands of years.

space chemistry gas smell 🌎

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

sport speed tennis figure

The fastest server in men's tennis.

space moon orbit 🌎

Triton is gradually getting closer to the planet it orbits.

space moon orbit 🌎

We always see the same side of the Moon.

phone study

Phantom vibration syndrome.

space time comet pass 🌎

Halley’s Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.

space astronaut health gravity 🌎

Astronauts can’t burp in space.

sport tennis history

In the beginning, tennis courts were hourglass-shaped.

sport tennis animal

Rufus The Wimbledon anty pigeon Hawk.

space growth gravity 🌎

Astronauts can grow approximately 5 cm in height when in space.

space orbit spin 🌎

Scientists once believed that the same side of Mercury always faced the Sun.

world language statistics

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

tree special plant

The Dragon Blood Tree.

food medicine history

Ketchup used to be used as a medicine.

space diamond planet

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

space quantity galaxy star ⛹🏻‍♀️

There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.

space day time

The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds long.

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