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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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16 |
An amblygon is another word for a(n) obtuse triangle. |
Science > Math |
11/10/11 |
|
17 |
Venus' axial tilt is 177.3 degrees, the reason for its seemingly retrograde rotation. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/08/11 |
|
18 |
Betelgeuse is also known as Alpha Orionis. |
Science > Astronomy |
06/13/11 |
|
19 |
Mixing ammonia and bleach together will produce a gas that kills instantly. |
Science > Chemistry |
12/26/10 |
|
20 |
The center of the Andromeda Galaxy is a supermassive black hole. |
Science > Astronomy |
12/01/10 |
|
21 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/19/10 |
|
22 |
Earth has a 23.5 degree tilt. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/09/10 |
|
23 |
Sometimes Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/09/10 |
|
24 |
A cosmic year, or a galactic year, is the time it takes for the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way. |
Science > Astronomy |
04/04/10 |
|
25 |
Pluto has has three known moons (as of September 2009): Charon, Nix and Hydra. |
Science > Astronomy |
03/30/10 |
|
26 |
The Mayan number system is in base twenty. |
Science > Math |
12/06/09 |
|
27 |
During Meiosis, the cells produced are genetically different. |
Science > Biology |
11/23/09 |
|
28 |
Ronald G.W. Norrish won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. |
Science > Chemistry |
08/26/09 |
|
29 |
Luis Leloir won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1970. |
Science > Chemistry |
08/26/09 |
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30 |
Stanford Moore won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972. |
Science > Chemistry |
08/23/09 |
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