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Jupiter completes a full rotation on its axis approximately every 9 hours and 55 minutes, making it the fastest-spinning planet in our Solar System.
When Boston went into lockdown after the 2013 Marathon bombing, authorities asked Dunkin’ Donuts to remain open to supply food and drinks to police and emergency responders.
Any buried treasure found in the United Kingdom must be reported to the government and can only be kept if no museum is willing to purchase it.
Pope Benedict IX, who was around 12 years old at his first election, is the youngest pope in history and the only person to have served as pope more than once.
In 1964, Andy Warhol made “Empire,” an eight-hour film consisting of a single stationary, slow-motion shot of New York’s Empire State Building.
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was mainly constructed between 1163 and 1260, though work on details continued for centuries.
The first computer mouse, built in 1964 by Doug Engelbart, was a wooden prototype called the “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.”
Seagulls imitate rain by stamping their feet in a behavior known as the “rain dance.” This behavior lures worms and insects to the surface.
There’s a giant replica of the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica on the Ivory Coast, which cost $300 million and took five years to build. Nowadays, it’s only used by a few hundred people.
Only three objects in the sky can cast shadows on Earth: the Sun, the Moon, and Venus. The first two are pretty common, but Venusian shadows are very elusive!
Hormel Foods, the creator of SPAM, kept a file of the hate mail they received from U.S. soldiers who had to eat the canned meat product while deployed overseas.
One of the oldest animals on Earth is the ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, with the oldest fossils dating back approximately 525 million years.
If you could drive your car to the Moon right now, it would take you about six months to get there at an average speed of 60 miles per hour (95 kilometers per hour).
On average, apples sold in supermarkets are already 9-12 months old. They are picked unripe, treated with chemicals, waxed and boxed, then kept in cold storage.
In 1998, John Glenn became the oldest person to orbit Earth at age 77. He had first made history in 1962 as the first American to orbit the planet.
NASA’s space shuttles, flown from 1981 to 2011, reached orbit in just eight and a half minutes, reaching speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour.
Around 10,000 underground nuclear bunkers were built during the Cold War in Beijing. They were later sold as real estate and are currently inhabited by over a million people.
The original “Star Wars” premiered on just 32 screens in the U.S. in 1977 to generate buzz before expanding to more theaters.
