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Weird Fact: You Could Drive to Space in One Hour
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More accurately, you could be there in 62 minutes, so plan ahead for your dinner reservations on the Moon. Of course, you couldn't do this normally, but if it were possible to get in your car, start it up, and drive straight upward toward space itself, and stay at exactly 60 miles per hour, you would arrive in suborbital space in about 62 minutes. Why? The shortest distance between the ground ... ...more
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Weird Fact: You Are 1 to 3 Percent Bacteria
This one makes me want to scrub down with some Purell, assuming I could find any in stores right now. Unbelievably, in everything that we've learned makes up the anatomy of a human: water, muscle, tissue, bone-- between one and three percent of it is bacteria. But don't worry! Most of these microorganisms are actually beneficial to your health, not a threat to it. "The human body contains ... ...more
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Weird Fact: Horses Can't Throw Up
Here's a fact you probably never even thought about (and probably didn't ask): horses, while so athletic that we have a whole measurement named for them to describe the power of a machine, are actually really, REALLY fragile. And I'm not just saying that. I live with four horses myself, and between the dental work, food curation, and inclination to leg and foot injuries, I sometimes look ... ...more
