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On June 8, 1975, the Soviet Venera 9 space probe became the first spacecraft to photograph Venus’s surface and return images to Earth.
The Japanese term for a shotgun wedding is “dekichatta kekkon,” which literally translates to “oops-we-did-it marriage.”
In a 2019 study, rats learned to play hide-and-seek and exhibited behaviors such as strategic hiding, joyful vocalizations, and re-hiding for the sake of fun.
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 1980, Rosie Ruiz was declared the women’s winner of the 84th Boston Marathon, but lost the title after it was revealed she joined the race near the finish and ran only the final mile.
In 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, which lasted less than two months.
Approximately 70–85 million people lost their lives during World War II. Only 21–25 million of those were military personnel; the rest were civilians.
In Las Vegas during the 1950s, Casinos offered “Atomic Tourism,” where guests could watch atomic bombs tested in the desert as entertainment.
In 2010, the U.S. Air Force built a supercomputer using 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles, which was faster than all the other computers in the U.S. Department of Defense.
Top Gear set a Toyota Hilux on fire, submerged it, hit it with a wrecking ball, and buried it in a building collapse; each time it was repaired without spare parts and restarted.
Stegosauruses did not coexist in the same time frame as Tyrannosaurus Rex. In fact, the T-rex lived closer in time to us than it did to Stegosauruses.
Since 1955, 50% of Niger’s population has consistently been under 16 years old. As of 2025, the population exceeds 28 million.
Despite the German Autobahn’s worldwide reputation as a highway with no speed limits, approximately 30% to 40% of its sections are actually regulated by speed limits.
In 2018, France passed a law banning children under 15 from using their smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets during the school day.
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known place in the universe, with a temperature of 1 Kelvin, which is equal to −457.87 °F (−272.15 °C).
In 2019, it was reported that bubble tea shops were so profitable that even the Yakuza were getting in on the business.
Mercury’s surface can reach temperatures of up to 430°C (800°F), yet the planet continues to cool. This slow cooling causes Mercury to shrink slightly over time.
During the first iPhone presentation in 2007, Steve Jobs had to switch between several iPhones to prevent crashes due to limited RAM and unstable software.
In 2008, Japanese researchers planned to launch paper planes from the ISS to study atmospheric re-entry, but the experiment was postponed due to tracking and recovery concerns.
Arthur Guy Empey’s 1917 trench memoir “Over the Top” is the first known use of “thumbs-up” as approval, where British soldiers on the Western Front used it to mean “everything’s fine.”
