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30 Science (and Sci-Fi) Factoids That’ll Follow You Around for the Rest of Your Life Like Valence Electrons

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30 Science (and Sci-Fi) Factoids That’ll Follow You Around for the Rest of Your Life Like Valence Electrons

September 02, 2024

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... TELL US NOW. HAIRSTYLISTS HAVE TO DO A SURPRISING AMOUNT OF MATH. Kay G. tells us, Angles, color formulas, timing, not to mention tracking our numbers. Also we have to learn a significant amount of the science behind hair. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ATOMIC ENERGY LAB GILBERT physics - ... ATOMIC ENERGY LAB PERFORME DMIN 150 - بهد - - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available - - - - Epecting! Safe! - GILBERT VALL DE SCIENCE .... CRACKED.COM SILBERT CLOUD CHAMPIER Did the Atomic Energy Lab come with actual uranium? Why, yes. Yes, it did. — Source

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You have more than 5 senses

MYTH: HUMAN BEINGS HAVE FIVE senses. TOUCH TASTE SIGHT HEARING SMELL FACT: You've ACTUALLY GOT SOMETHING LIKE 15. Scientists still aren't quite sure exactly how many senses you have, or what even constitutes a sense, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one who believes you have just five. Depending on how they count senses, experts usually wind up with somewhere between 14 and 20. There's your sense of time, your sense of where your body is, and so on. CRACKED.COM http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/question242.htm — Source: 12 Creepy Urban Legends (That Are True)

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CRACKED CHICKENS: FROM FARM TO ZOO IN ONE BREATH. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has baby chicks that get fed to the animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo. — Source

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We need to save the ugly fish

WHAT'S UP WITH SCIENCE? CRACKED.COM We need to save ugly fish The reef fish rated least aesthetically attractive tended to be more ecologically distinct (thus important to save). Despite this, they are more likely to be endangered and, due to their looks, less likely to receive public support. — Source: The Guardian

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TELL US NOW. JOHN KEMPF Hannah F. describes him as a former boy-genius Amish farmer who taught himself soil sciences and has become one of the leading experts in soil amendments and regenerative growing practices. CRACKED.COM — Source: Modern Farmer

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Praying Mantis Goggles

Scientists built tiny 3D goggles for praying mantises. This mantis isn't just fashionable with its slick little goggles-it's a boon to science. Mantises are the only known invertebrates with 3D vision, and can accurately strike moving prey even when the image beamed to each eye (via the goggles) is different. This mantis-vision research could help future worker robots navigate the world. Or more effectively murder enemies of the hive mind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE DARWIN'S BARK SPIDER SPINS 80-FOOT WEBS. It spins its webs across rivers like a fishing net, and scientists speculate that a Darwin's bark spiderweb is strong enough to catch a bird. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/photogalleries/100917-darwins- CRACKED.COM bark-spider-new-species-spider-webs-madagascar-science-pictures-strongest/ — Source: 25 Animals IRL That Will Haunt Your Dreams

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We all know Freddie Mercury's singing voice was incredible. Now there's SCIENCE to back it. Anecdotal claims of a four octave range aside, scientific studies concluded that he used vocal subharmonics common to Tuvan throat singers. And while he mostly sang tenor, the average frequency of his speaking voice places him as a natural baritone. They also found his vibrato control was better and faster than Pavoratti's. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Famous People With Superhero-Level Skills

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When hybrid cars became mainstream, people feared that their electromagnetic fields were dangerous for people to be around. While no side effects were ever confirmed by medical science, many people complained of them, and some spent hundreds of dollars on home testing machines to prove how strong the EMFs were. CRACKED.COM — Source: The 16 Dumbest Ways People Freaked Over New Tech

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The youngest person to publish in a medical journal was 11 years old. Emily Rosa published her school science project demonstrating that Reiki (a type of alternative med- icine) practitioners could not detect the alleged life force under experimental conditions. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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A black hole will turn you into spaghetti. The forces of a black hole are known to turn anything in its path into a long thin line, a process that science literally calls Spaghettification. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Crikey, the Culmination of Science

The genus Crikey contains only one species, a snail named in honor of a late, dearly missed Australian conservationist: Crikey steveirwini. This is what science has been working toward all these years. CRACKED — Source

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein Mary Shelley was certainly inspired by the creepy scientific develop- ments of the 19th century in the creation of her monster, but she was also a teenager and probably less concerned with the conse- quences of playing God than the responsibilities of parents to their children. Yes, the book that invent- ed science-fiction was largely a temper tantrum. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Cultura Colectiva

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AT A GLANCE OCTAVIA E. BUTLER She was the first science fiction author to win the MacArthur Genius Grant. In 1995, the Black woman set a huge record in the genre disproportionally dominated by white men. She has also received multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. CRACKED.COM — Source: Legacy Project

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Meee-OW

CRACKED SCIENCE HAS DISCOVERED THAT YOUR CAT ACTUALLY DOES MANIPULATE YOU! Studies show that cats don't meow at other cats- they only do it because they learned it will get humans to do things for them. — How Your Pet Controls Your Mind / NBC

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Harlan Ellison

cartoon celebrities Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated The Simpsons Harlan Ellison The abrasive yet acclaimed science fiction writer appeared as himself on The Simpsons in Married to the Blob, and as a recurring character in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, working as a college teacher. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Animation dates way back to the stone age, using only charcoal, flickering flames, and neuroscience. 21,000 years ago, prehistoric artists would draw rows of images that, when illuminated by flickering firelight, would CRACKED.COM appear to be in motion. This illusion has to do with the way the human brain fills in gaps between the flashes of light. — Source

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Alien Virus

Fourth of July Movies Independence Day A deleted scene makes the virus make a bit more sense. The scene suggests that current Earth tech was reverse-engineered from the Roswell crash, which means that a human-created virus can be uploaded to an alien computers. It's science! YEUR transfry I 3 UPLOADING VIRUS Stop CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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Science’s Most Well-Hung Salamander

Batrachuperus longdongensis is named after the Longdong stream in which it can be found, and not because, as one might think, it's sporting a chunky hog. CRACKED — source / Salamanders of China

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Shakespeare

CRACKED RESEARCHERS FOUND DICK JOKES IN SHAKESPEARE NOBODY NOTICED BEFORE. In 2006, researchers used computers to look at William Shakespeare's writings and found some dick jokes that nobody had noticed before. Science is amazing. — Six Fancy-Pants Authors Who Snuck Filth into Their Work / Kennedy Center

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Cosplay became a thing in 1939. Sci-fi fan Myrtle Douglas and her husband wore costumes from the 1936 H.G. Wells movie Things to Come to the World Science Fiction Convention that year, and costume contests became an annual tradition at that convention after that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Racked

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The equations on the background in (4) Solhi The Big Bang Ing ٤٥٦٤ 500 & والدف Theory are 194 with of mathematically a accurate. TVV.c. have shyhns) M=X Y Y Medach PLUR DEVOC Y:Beic DC-DC-TOO /Y1 DS.DC.O V/v =-2 Рыш = 1973 sample Y/T David e Saltzberg, a professor at UCLA studying particle physics, works as the science consultant on the show. CRACKED.COM — Source: 46 Next-Level Movie Facts To Know

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The Catholic Church is actually pretty cool with evolution and the Big Bang. Bras OVIA DILIGO TE O PETRE DIXIST NC VNA FIDES MYNDO REFVIG It also says that Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design are essentially just pretending to be science, and it rejects them outright. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKEDC COM STARDEWY VALLEY began as a C# exercise. Computer science graduate Eric Concernedape Barone wanted to improve his coding skill after his

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ADAM SAVAGE AND JAMIE HYNEMAN HAVE PUBLISHED MYTHBUSTERS' RESULTS IN PEER-REVIVED JOURNALS X S Science AAAS www.sciencemag.org C Niet beveiligd Scienc — Source: Cambridge

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MYTH: A PeRSon IS eITHeR LeFT- OR RIGHT-BRAINED. FACT: YOUR BRAIN ISN'T DIVIDED UP THAT WAY. The myth that right-brained people are creative and artistic and left-brained people are logical and mathematical is so pervasive that teachers are instructed to balance the brained-ness of their teachings. The brain does indeed have some specialized structures, but the idea that they cluster on opposite sides of the brain like rival gangs is ridiculous. CRACKED.COM http://www.livescience.com/655-lefty-myths-mysteries-persist.html — Source

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This planet is screwed. Christopher Nolan's 2014 science fiction film Interstellar depicts several planets orbiting a supermassive black hole; one of which orbits so close that it experiences extreme gravitational time dilation (time passes much slower for people on this planet than it does for people on earth). In reality, if a planet existed that close to a black hole it would be bombarded with massive levels of radiation and obliterated by the black hole's immense gravitational forces. CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Science Facts Everybody Assumed Movies Got Right (They Didn't)

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Religion

The Effect of Religion In a study of third graders, parents' religiosity positively affected children's psychological adjustment and social competence but negatively affected children's reading, math, and science scores. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science Daily

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