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If a meteoroid makes it through Earth’s atmosphere and lands on Earth, it’s called a meteorite. Meteorites are only a fraction in size compared to the original meteoroid.
Due to their semi-aquatic nature, the Catholic Church once considered beavers to be fish, fit for consumption on meatless Fridays.
Pluto has a thin, blue, hazy atmosphere, but its sky would not appear bright blue like Earth’s. Instead, you’d see only a faint haze against the blackness of space.
“Rock, paper, scissors” originated in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), where it was known as “shoushiling.”
The Beatles are the best-selling musicians of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide.
While filming “The Longest Day,” a tank from the actual invasion of Normandy was found buried in the sand since D-Day. The tank was cleaned up and used in the movie.
In 2011, Abercrombie & Fitch offered $10,000 to cast members of “Jersey Shore” if they agreed to stop wearing their brand on the show.
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 Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, can reach about 2 million °C, making it over 360 times hotter than its 5,500 °C surface.
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.
Each year, the Moon drifts about 1.5 inches, or 3.8 centimeters, away from Earth as tidal forces gradually push it outward.
Due to historical surveying errors, the Four Corners Monument is approximately 1,800 feet east of its intended location.
Broccoli originated over 2,000 years ago in the Mediterranean through selective breeding of wild cabbage.
Uranus spins on its side with an axis tilted about 98 degrees, meaning its poles point nearly where most planets’ equators do.
Since 2015, thousands of Swedes have had microchips implanted in their hands by companies like Biohax to unlock doors, use train tickets, and store personal data.
Saturn is the only planet in the Solar System light enough to float in water, since its overall density is lower than that of water.
The name “orangutan” is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang, meaning “person,” and hutan, meaning “forest,” thus “person of the forest.”
Up to half of Earth’s water formed before the Sun, originating from interstellar ices in the molecular cloud that birthed our solar system.
The big toe is scientifically known as the hallux. Unlike the other four toes, the hallux typically has only two bones instead of three.
The first jet aircraft was invented in Nazi Germany. Development started in 1936, and the first takeoff occurred on August 27, 1939.
You don’t gain immunity to tetanus if you recover from it, as the toxin that causes it is so lethal that death would occur before an immune response could occur.
NASA scientists reported in 2015 that Mars once held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, forming a vast ocean that covered up to 19% of the planet’s surface.
