🧠 Did you know?
“Brain-eating amoebas” can enter the body through the nose while swimming in warm freshwater. 😳
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🧅 Science Fact Friday 🧪
Ever wondered why onions make you cry while cooking?
It’s all chemistry!
Science is literally everywhere, even in your kitchen. 🔬✨
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💧 Hydroelectric dams generate renewable electricity by harnessing the water cycle.
Rainfall naturally refills reservoirs, helping supply around 14.3% of the world’s power.
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The only letter not represented on the perodic table is the letter J
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19 Dec 2025
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The first Christmas spent in space was during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
On December 24, the crew (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) entered lunar orbit. They were the first humans to ever orbit the Moon.
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5 Dec 2025
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Your Christmas lights will tangle thanks to entropy.
Physicists have shown that any cord, once long enough, is almost guaranteed to knot because there is only one untangled state but countless tangled ones.
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15 Aug 2025
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Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae (7) despite the giraffe’s much longer neck.
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Platypuses don’t have stomachs - their oesophagus connects directly to their intestines.
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25 Jul 2025
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Goats have rectangular pupils. It gives them panoramic vision
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11 Jul 2025
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Your belly button is basically a tiny jungle. It can house over 2,000 different species of bacteria, some unique to you.
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4 Jul 2025
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The brilliant red pigment known as carmine, used in everything from cosmetics to food, is actually made from crushed cochineal insects!
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20 Jun 2025
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Fizzy drinks go flat faster on planes.
The lower cabin pressure lets those CO₂ bubbles escape more quickly than they do at sea level.
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13 Jun 2025
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Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.
So similar, in fact, they’ve confused crime scene investigators!
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16 May 2025
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The sound of a cracking whip is actually a mini sonic boom.
The tip of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound.
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9 May 2025
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A single bolt of lightning can contain enough energy to potentially toast around 7,000 to 35,000 slices of bread. That's quite a few jars of jam to go through.
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18 Apr 2025
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Rabbits perform spontaneous leaps and twists known as "binkies" when they’re happy.
It's basically a bunny's version of a happy dance
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14 Mar 2025
.@USDA_ARS and @USDA_APHIS at NBAF will focus on research, diagnostics, and training for high-consequence animal diseases, including African Swine Fever. #ScienceFactFriday 🔬
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7 Mar 2025
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Not all caterpillars spin cocoons!
Moth caterpillars spin silk cocoons, but butterfly caterpillars form chrysalises from their own hardened skin.
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28 Feb 2025
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Dinosaurs didn’t all roam the Earth at the same time!
The T. rex appeared around 72 million years ago, but by then, Stegosaurus had already been extinct for nearly 70 million years. That means a T. rex was closer in time to humans than to a Stegosaurus!
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