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In January 2019, Vietnamese doctors administered 15 cans of beer to a patient to save his life from methanol poisoning.
HD 140283, nicknamed Methuselah, formed about 13.7 billion years ago, shortly after the Big Bang, and is among the universe’s oldest known stars.
The Buran, a Soviet space shuttle, looked almost identical to the American shuttle because it was based on designs stolen from NASA.
Moondust smells like gunpowder, but only shortly after its exposure to oxygen. After that, it has almost no smell at all.
On a papal flight in South America, Pope Francis performed a wedding ceremony for two flight attendants when he found out they had missed their wedding due to an earthquake.
Staying up all night can sometimes improve mood in depression. This is because not sleeping boosts brain activity and increases dopamine, a mood-enhancing chemical.
Helen Keller was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee through her paternal grandmother, who was his second cousin.
The position of U.S. Treasurer was held exclusively by women from 1949 until 2025, when Donald Trump broke the 76-year streak by appointing Brandon Beach.
Neptune was discovered using math a few months before it was physically observed, as it was causing irregularities in Uranus’ orbit.
In the mid-1990s, Hubble Deep Field images estimated 200 billion galaxies, but a 2016 study led by Christopher Conselice showed that the number is closer to 2 trillion.
The United States has more people in prison than any other country, with over 1.8 million Americans incarcerated in 2024, the highest number in the world.
In 1816, Dr. René Laennec invented the stethoscope as he thought it inappropriate to place his head on a female patient’s chest.
There are computers designed for Amish people, marketed with features like “No internet, no video, no music.”
Saturn’s moon Mimas bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star from “Star Wars” thanks to an enormous crater called the Herschel Crater.
Garfield phones have been washing up on a beach in France since the mid-1980s, when a shipping container lost in a storm got stuck in a sea cave.
In the 1800s, some wealthy people wore dentures made from teeth pulled from dead soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo; these later became known as “Waterloo teeth.”
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
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!
The Japanese department store Ito Yokado plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Allegro con brio, to signal a bomb threat.
Bubble wrap originated as a failed 1957 wallpaper experiment by engineers Fielding and Chavannes, who sealed plastic sheets together to make a bubbly wall covering.
