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13/12/2022

Black and gold are beloved colors in Pittsburgh, especially for sports fans who proudly wear them whether they're rooting for the Steelers (NFL), the Penguins (NHL), or the Pirates (MLB). According to The Witchita Eagle, the inspiration for the choice of color is "pretty simple—they are the colors of Pittsburgh's flag, which is based on the coat of arms of William Pitt, the 18th century British prime minister for whom the city is named."

13/12/2022

When astronaut Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, he brought with him hundreds of seeds from five different kinds of trees: loblolly pine, sycamore, sweetgum, redwood, and Douglas fir.

When he returned to Earth, the seeds were planted throughout the U.S. and around the world in order to grow into what were affectionately deemed "Moon Trees." If you're interested in seeing one in person, you can find a list of the trees as well as their locations on NASA's website.

11/12/2022

At least one particular bloodhound, named Ludivine, sure was! According to CNN, the athletic pooch ran a half-marathon in Alabama in 2016, completing the entire 13.1 miles on her own and finishing in seventh place.

11/12/2022

Distinct from the geographic North Pole, the magnetic North Pole—used in compass navigation—is in northern Canada and moves about 10 kilometers a year. As Scientific American explains, the shift occurs "under the influence of the dynamo currents in the Earth's core, as well as electric currents flowing in the ionosphere, the radiation belts, and the Earth's magnetosphere."

08/12/2022

Way up in space, there's an asteroid by the name of 241 Germania that's 100-miles wide and holds a heck of a lot of minerals. On Earth, those minerals, including hydrocarbons such as oil, would be worth around $95.8 trillion.

06/12/2022

Duck Trivia | 30 facts about the animal

Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. They belong to the same family as the swans.

06/12/2022

Sloth Trivia | 40 facts about the cute animal

Sloths are a group of arboreal Neotropical xenarthran mammals, constituting the suborder Folivora.

06/12/2022

Obviously, peanuts are a tasty snack—as long as you're not allergic to them, that is. But did you know they can also be used to make dynamite? When extracted, peanut oil can be turned into glycerol, which can then make nitroglycerine, an unstable explosive substance used in dynamite. In a safer state, glycerol is also used for soaps, creams, and various food products.

06/12/2022

The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957 and used a mere 236 words to tell the quirky feline's fantastical story. However, the book's author, Dr. Seuss, topped that feat with even fewer words when his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. Green Eggs and Ham hit bookstores three years later and uses exactly 50 words.

04/12/2022

NASA has found some pretty incredible things in space, and that includes a floating reservoir of water that holds the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water that's in Earth's oceans. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that the reservoir surrounds a giant black hole.

More than 12 billion light-years away from Earth, the reservoir is more proof "that water is pervasive throughout the universe," says Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.