Category: Did You Know?
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Did you know: Venus Degrees
Venus is never more than 46 degrees away from the Sun as viewed from Earth?
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Did you know: Parsecs
a parsec is conveniently 10 lightyears? (A parsec is a parallel arcsecond, the distance to a star that looks like it changes position 1 arcsecond (3,600’th of a degree) on opposite sides of Earth’s orbit.)
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Did you know: Nanotubes
Carbon nexuses can be insulators, semi-conductors, conductors, or superconducters based on what other elements are placed in empty space between parts of the nexus?
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Did you know: Ice Skating
ice skating works by melting a small portion of the ice?
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Did you know: Aspen Sunscreen
the white color on Aspen bark has the same function as sunscreen for the tree?
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Did you know: Wyoming State Tree
the state tree of Wyoming is the Cottonwood?
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Did you know: African Fauna
most stereotypically African animals evolved in Eurasia and North America?
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Did you know: mammal teeth
most fossil mammal species are distinguished by their teeth? It’s why so many species have -odon at the end of their name.