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In 1928, Russian physician Alexander Bogdanov tried to make himself younger by experimenting with blood transfusions. He failed and died due to using diseased blood.
Los Pinos, once the residence of Mexico’s presidents, is 14 times the size of the White House and became accessible to the public on December 1, 2018.
Cork comes from the bark of the cork oak tree and is commonly used for bottle stoppers and flooring materials.
Mercury’s axis tilts less than one degree, but its oval-shaped orbit causes temperature changes similar to seasons on Earth.
Almost all maps of the Solar System exaggerate the size of planets and underexaggerate the distance in space between them.
A Boeing 747 is made up of over 6 million parts, and the final assembly process takes around 45 days.
In 1998, grade school children in Aurora, Colorado, raised $35,000 to buy the freedom of child slaves in Sudan.
In 2019, the State of Washington made Comcast pay $9.1 million in penalties and issue refunds for enrolling customers in a $4.99/month Service Protection Plan without consent.
“Zombie stars” are white dwarfs in binary systems that survive a partial supernova explosion, appearing to come back to life.
Historically, “nebula” referred to any cloudy-looking celestial object seen through a telescope. Today, it specifically means interstellar clouds of gas and dust.
Asteroids, comets, and meteoroids are different: Asteroids are rocky, comets are made of ice and dust, and meteoroids are fragments of either that were created in collisions.
The sound of water helps us sleep because our brain interprets it as a “non-threatening” noise signal that says, “Don’t worry, you are alright.”
In historical England, a “gentleman” referred to a man of inherited social rank, lower than an esquire but higher than a yeoman or tradesman.
In 2018, Brokeback Mountain was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
As a child, Jet Li performed with the Chinese National Wushu Team for President Nixon. Nixon asked him to be his personal bodyguard, but he declined.
The Mars Curiosity rover is about the size of a small car, measuring roughly 10 feet (3 meters) in length and 7 feet (2 meters) in height.
Space telescopes, such as Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, allow us to look back in time, capturing light that originated from distant objects billions of years ago.
The diamond-shaped patch on a backpack is called a lash tab, and it was originally designed to hang extra gear on the outside of the bag.
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.
Elementary students from Joliet, Illinois, successfully lobbied to have popcorn designated as the state’s official snack food in 2003.
Earth’s diameter is about 3.7 times that of the Moon, but it has roughly 50 times more volume and 81 times more mass.
