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In 1847 a Vienna doctor cut childbed-fever deaths on the doctors' ward from about one…
TOTO introduced the Washlet in 1980 — and by 2020 electronic bidet seats were installed…
Stand up too fast and the stars filling your vision aren't imaginary
In 1971, the Soviet probe Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to land softly on Mars
In the Martian sky, the sun appears roughly two-thirds the size it looks from Earth…
In 1610, Galileo pointed a small telescope at Jupiter and saw four moons orbiting it
A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head, dying eventually of thirst…
Mars once had a magnetic field strong enough to deflect solar wind, just as Earth's…
Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet…
In the 1970s, Africa still held around 90,000 lions
