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The Moon’s gravity drives most of Earth’s tides, but the Sun’s gravitational pull also contributes significantly.
In 1985, the New Orleans lifeguards threw a pool party to celebrate a season without a single drowning. Ironically, a man drowned in the pool that night.
“Laid Off” means the company has removed the position and thus the individual, while “Let Go” or “Fired” means the company has released the individual from the position.
The Crab Nebula, located in the Taurus constellation, is the remnant of a star that went supernova in 1054.
An extremely rare book titled “Shadows from the Walls of Death” can kill you if you touch it. Only four copies remain, each containing 86 arsenic-laced wallpaper samples.
Chess piece names changed over time; the queen was once called a vizier, the bishop an elephant, and the rook a chariot.
Pluto is a frozen wasteland, but it’s not just covered in frozen water. The dwarf planet is also made up of frozen nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane.
Vesna Vulović survived the highest recorded fall without a parachute in 1972, plummeting from 33,333 feet. She spent 16 months in the hospital recovering from the incident.
Each lunar day lasts about 29.5 Earth days, creating two-week periods of sunlight and darkness at any given spot on the Moon.
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.
Saturn’s moon Mimas bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star from “Star Wars” thanks to an enormous crater called the Herschel Crater.
Halley’s Comet passes by Earth roughly every 75 years, making it the only known comet bright enough to be seen with the naked eye twice in a single lifetime.
Mira, a star in the Cetus constellation, varies in brightness throughout the year. For a few days every year, it can be 1,700 times its normal brightness.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz conducted a private communion service, drinking wine from a silver chalice he’d brought from his church.
The death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides) is considered the world’s most poisonous mushroom. If consumed, death is not immediate and may follow several days of severe illness.
The Sun contains an estimated 1.989 × 10²¹ kilograms of gold, slightly more than the total mass of all the water in Earth’s oceans.
Contrary to their depiction in movies, asteroids in the asteroid belt are so widely spaced that, standing on one, you likely wouldn’t see another nearby.
The brightest asteroid visible from Earth is 4 Vesta, which can occasionally be seen with the naked eye.
An ex-monk in Spain, Justo Gallego Martínez, began building a cathedral by hand in 1961, working on it for 60 years until he passed away in 2021.