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White coarse kosher salt in a teal, scallop-shaped dish

Kosher salt has larger, coarser crystals and usually lacks iodine and anti-caking agents, unlike table salt, which is finely ground, often iodized, and includes anti-caking agents.

Whole orange floating and orange slices submerged in yellow water

Unpeeled oranges float in water, while peeled oranges sink. This surprising phenomenon is due to the increased buoyancy of orange peel, which contains small pockets of air.

Laura Dekker smiling while steering her two-masted sailing ship Guppy

In 2010, at 16 years old, Laura Dekker became the youngest person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world in her two-masted sailing ship “Guppy.”

A close-up of a calendar page showing numbered dates with a black and gold pen resting on the 15th

Ethiopia follows a 13-month calendar that is approximately 7 to 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar, with the new year beginning every September.

Glowing orange-black hole with light trails stretching into darkness

If you fell into a black hole, the immense gravity would stretch you out like spaghetti, a process scientists call “spaghettification.”

Mister Rogers is sitting on a wooden bench, wearing a hand-knitted red sweater

All of the sweaters Mister Rogers wore on his show were hand-knitted by his mother. He said he loved wearing them because they always made him think of her.

Pluto's faint blue atmospheric haze against the blackness of space

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.

Radar image showing the ridged surface of Maxwell Montes on Venus

With its peak soaring to heights of 6.8 miles (11 km), the tallest mountain on Venus is Maxwell Montes.

Numerous three-dimensional numbers scattered on a textured surface, casting shadows

The largest known prime number has 41,024,320 digits. The prime number is calculated by multiplying together 136,279,841 twos, and then subtracting 1.

Color-enhanced view of Pluto showing its diverse surface features

A day on Pluto lasts about 153 hours. That’s equivalent to 6.4 Earth days!

Clownfish swimming among purple and green sea anemone

Schools of clownfish have a hierarchy with a female at the top. When the top female dies, the most dominant male changes his sex to female and takes over.

Collage of all 110 Messier objects including galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters

A Messier marathon is an all-night stargazing challenge where people try to spot all 110 celestial objects in the Messier catalog, including galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae.

Black queen standing next to toppled white king on chessboard

Fairy chess pieces are non-standard pieces used in chess variants, each with unique movement rules.

Woman lying inside a lit tanning bed wearing a white top

Tanning beds were banned in Australia in 2015 due to the increased risk of skin cancer.

Apollo astronaut stands near American flag on the Moon with visible footprints on lunar surface

Because the Moon has no atmosphere, the Apollo astronauts’ footprints could last for tens of millions of years before being slowly worn away by micrometeorites.

Close-up of PlayStation controller buttons in dim lighting

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.

Engraving of human limbs roasting over an open fire with smoke rising

Hufu, a tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh, was jokingly marketed as “the healthy human flesh alternative” for “cannibals who want to quit.”

Close-up of a dusty black keyboard key with the letter Q

There are 4,422 words in American and Canadian English in which the letter Q is not followed by U.

Wooden computer mouse

The first computer mouse, built in 1964 by Doug Engelbart, was a wooden prototype called the “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.”

The six main Friends cast members sharing milkshakes at a diner counter

Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.

Planet Venus with a cartoon wind cloud illustration on its surface

The wind on Venus can often reach speeds as high as 450 mph (724 km/h).

Former Khmer Rouge leader escorted in court by a security officer

About 28.4% of Cambodian adults experience symptoms of PTSD from the Khmer Rouge era, during which almost a third of the population was massacred.

Planet Mercury near the bright Sun in space

Mercury has no moons because it’s too close to the Sun, which would pull any potential moons away from the tiny planet.

Blue-green planet Uranus surrounded by distant stars in space

Uranus orbits the Sun at a distance of about 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) and takes 84 years to complete a single orbit.