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After the USSR successfully launched the world’s first satellite, NASA tried to launch its own. It crashed in 3 seconds, so the press dubbed it “Kaputnik.”
Following the Chernobyl disaster, sunflowers were planted in an attempt to remove radioactive elements from contaminated water and soil.
The word “hello” was only used as a greeting following the invention of the telephone. Before that, it was merely a word to get someone’s attention.
In the early 1990s, Disney considered an animated “Romeo and Juliet” but chose to develop “Pocahontas,” incorporating similar themes of star-crossed lovers.
The original Star-Spangled Banner was sewn on a brewery floor in Baltimore in 1813 by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter.
Not all planets orbit a star. Rogue planets, or wandering planets, freely float around the universe with no strings attached.
Psychologists at UC Berkeley found that pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat. Embracing your darker moods can make you feel better in the long run.
The Pleiades, a star cluster in the Taurus constellation, has been named over the millennia by many cultures, including Greek, Aztec, Celtic, and Australian Aboriginal.
A priest and book publisher devised recipes inspired by biblical foods, including a locust soup to represent John the Baptist’s diet of “locusts and wild honey.”
Out of more than 77,000 recognized meteorites found on Earth, only around 400 have been identified as coming from Mars.
In the distant future, every star will burn out, and the universe will enter the black dwarf era, a step toward its eventual heat death, when all light and energy will fade away.
A super-Earth is a planet with less mass than icy giants such as Uranus or Neptune but more mass than Earth.
Project Habakkuk was a World War II British plan to build an aircraft carrier from ice reinforced with wood pulp, but it was abandoned in 1943 due to steep costs and technical hurdles.
In 1943, off the Russell Islands, USS O’Bannon’s crew threw potatoes at a Japanese submarine’s deck crew to keep them from their gun before sinking the sub with gunfire and charges.
The second-largest stadium in the world is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in North Korea. It can hold up to 114,000 spectators. It covers 51 acres and is 197 feet tall.
Raw salmon sushi gained popularity in Japan only after the Norwegian salmon industry began a marketing campaign in the 1980s and 1990s to sell its parasite-free farmed Atlantic salmon.
The Buran, a Soviet space shuttle, looked almost identical to the American shuttle because it was based on designs stolen from NASA.
The Voyager 1 probe is the farthest man-made object from Earth, currently over 15 billion miles (more than 25 billion kilometers) away.
The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in Iraq in 1976. Although the tablet has since been lost, the text was preserved.
The matter we can see or record with various devices makes up just 5% of the universe’s content. The other 95% is made up of dark matter and dark energy.
In Alabama, it is illegal to participate in shooting, hunting, gaming, card playing, or racing on Sundays, with fines ranging from $10 to $100.
Some brown dwarfs have surface temperatures as low as -10°F (-23°C), making them cool enough to touch!
A 2024 survey found that Americans held $27 billion in unspent gift cards and store credits, with 43% of adults carrying an average of $244 each.
