[Amazing fact 1] A Canadian astronomer named J. W. Campbell traveled around the world for 50 years to try to see twelve different eclipses. Unfortunately, he ran into overcast skies every time.
[Amazing fact 2] During the Viking missions to Mars, scientists were worried about contaminating the Martian environment with microbes from Earth.
[Amazing fact 3] Even the tiniest sliver of the Sun can burn a person's eyes. People who have looked at the Sun during an eclipse actually had crescents burned into the back of the eye.
[Amazing fact 4] Environmental stress may increase jellyfish swarms. Jellyfish are one of the very few creatures that can adapt to ocean dead zones, or zones where there is little oxygen and lots of pollution. There are over 400 marine dead zones in the world.
[Amazing fact 5] Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system, and if there were a body of water large enough to hold Saturn, the planet would float. In contrast, Earth and Mercury would sink the fastest.
[Amazing fact 6] Lucille Ball, from I Love Lucy and head of Star Trek’s parent company Desilu Productions, single handedly kept Star Trek: TOS from cancellation during the first season. The series was finally canceled in its third season, after 79 episodes. It then gained immense popularity in syndication.
[Amazing fact 7] Captain Kirk was born on Earth in Iowa. He is paradox in many ways—for example, he depends on technology but likes resolving conflict with a hands-on approach, and he deplores humankind’s violence but has a distrust of apparent peace. Additionally, although he has a reputation as a lady’s man, no woman has come between him and his career—or his ship.
[Amazing fact 8] Though coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around A.D. 850, it wasn’t until it spread to Mocha, Yemen, in around 1100 that it became firmly established as a popular drink. From Mocha (from which Mocha coffee derives its name), beans were shipped to India, Java, and eventually Europe in 1515. By 1675, England had more than 3,000 coffee houses.
[Amazing fact 9] For 76 years, Pluto was considered a planet. However, when astronomers discovered that it was just one of many large objects within the Kuiper belt, Pluto was renamed a “dwarf planet” in 2006.
[Amazing fact 10] Trained pigeons can differentiate between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet.
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