Astronomy
A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes 243 Earth days to spin once on its axis, but only 225 Earth days to complete a full orbit of the Sun.
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the surface temperature of a single lightning bolt
That's roughly six times hotter than the surface of the sun — for about a tenth of a millisecond, then it's gone.
Source: NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory · verified 2026
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A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes 243 Earth days to spin once on its axis, but only 225 Earth days to complete a full orbit of the Sun.
Gold is so chemically unreactive that it can pass straight through the human body untouched — which is exactly why edible gold leaf shows up on some desserts.
Sometimes the most valuable discovery in a dataset isn't what you were looking for—it’s a surprising pattern that becomes visible only when the data is visualized.
The point in the Pacific Ocean farthest from any land is called Point Nemo. Astronauts on the space station are sometimes the closest humans to it — orbiting 400 km overhead.
If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, it’s more than likely that the exact order of the cards you get has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.
Light takes about eight minutes to travel from the Sun to your eyes — so the sunlight on your skin right now left the Sun before you started reading this sentence.