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In 1816, a French physician named René Laennec, embarrassed to press his ear…
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The largest known organism on Earth isn't a whale or a tree
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For more than thirty years after his death in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was…
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When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they…
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 with a mirror so precisely ground that…
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In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air…
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In 1919, British astronomer Arthur Eddington sailed to the island of Príncipe to…
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The geochemist who first measured the true age of the Earth kept finding lead…
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Quote by Bill Nye: "There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young…
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Most people are solving the wrong equation
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In October 1957, Sputnik 1 crossed the sky every 96 minutes while two 1-watt…
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In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds around the…
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In April 2016, a mother who had lost two children to the same disease flew to…
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In eight men, a high-PPO banana smoothie produced 84% lower peak flavan-3-ol…
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