Facts & Quotes™💡

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“Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...” Oksana Rus #quotes

Jackie Chan plans to leave his estimated $370 million to charity and not for his son, Jaycee. Chan explained "If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting mine." #people

Pluto has yet to complete a single orbit around the sun since it was discovered 92 years ago The planet will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23rd, 2178 #space #pluto

​​Signing books before publication is not a new practice. In the 1760s Laurence Sterne personally signed over twelve thousand copies of Tristram Shandy to protect it from piracy. #funfact

The Earth's core is around 2.5 years younger than its crust. #earth

If Texas were a country, it would rank as the world's seventh-largest producer of greenhouse gases #funfact

A group of chimpanzees is called a "community" #animals #chimpanzees

The word "shazam" is an acronym that first appeared in a comic strip about Captain Marvel in 1940, who holds the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. #word_of_the_day

Choose to put all of your energy into gratitude today. You will see miracles take place when you use gratitude to shift your energy. #tips

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The Maori language of New Zealand has a word for autism, 'takiwatanga' Meaning “In their own time and space” #funfact

Humanity collectively watches more than one billion hours of YouTube videos every day #funfact

​​In 1543’s anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius, ‘the father of modern anatomy’, the uterus was illustrated with the following image. #funfact

​​The first interstellar object to have been detected passing through the Solar System was a an 800 metre-long cigar-shaped lump of indeterminate matter nicknamed 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for ‘scout’) which tumbled through at 57,000 mph in October 2017. #space

​​What is Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)? CFIT is defined as an unintentional collision with terrain (the ground, a mountain, a body of water, or an obstacle) while an aircraft is under positive control. Most often, the pilot or crew is unaware of the looming disaster until it is too late. CFIT most commonly occurs in the approach or landing phase of flight. Accidents where the aircraft is out of control at the point of impact are not known as CFIT. Rather, they are considered uncontrolled flight into terrain. Similarly, incidents resulting from deliberate acts, such as terrorism or suicide by the pilot, are also not considered to be CFIT. Technological advances in situational awareness have dramatically reduced the number of General Aviation Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents over the past 20 years. Nevertheless, CFIT accidents continue to occur and at least half of them are fatal.

Elephants rarely get cancer because they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one #animals #elephants #funfact

Your liver grows by 50% during the day, then shrinks at night. #funfact

Fremdschämen (German): To be embarrassed because someone else has embarrassed themselves. #funword

In 2018, a Russian mapping service attempted to hide all military facilities in Turkey and Israel by blurring them out, unintentionally, making it obvious where the 300+ military bases were located #funfact