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• [Science fact 1]  When a star goes supernova, the rapidly expanding bubble of hot, metal-rich gas from it hits the edge of the galactic disk where it suddenly encounters much less resistance from a much lower density of the interstellar medium, allowing it to form a chimney perpendicular to the disk. After arcing well outside the disk, this material then cools and rains down over a large portion of the galaxy, seeding stellar nurseries with metals that will later become planets.

  Science, Space source

• [Science fact 2]  In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared July to be National Ice Cream Month.

  Food, Food Science, Ice Cream, Science

• [Science fact 3]  Trees have a maximum height of 426 feet and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.

  Plants, Science source

• [Science fact 4]  Spotlight effect is the tendency to overestimate the amount that other people notice your appearance or behavior. The reasoning behind the spotlight effect comes from the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one’s own world, one is not the center of everyone else’s. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.

  People, Science source

• [Science fact 5]  Many scientists believe that environmental stressors—including climate change, pollution, overharvesting of fish, and dams—have led to the proliferation of jellyfish.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 6]  Certain bacteria such as Bacillus pasteurii, Bacillus pseudofirmus, Bacillus cohnii, Sporosarcina pasteuri can be used to increase the strength of concrete by incorporating them into concrete mixture.

  Misc, Science source

• [Science fact 7]  Approximately 80% of current US astronauts wear eye correction (i.e. glasses or contact lenses). As long as the astronauts' vision is correctable to 20/20, they are allowed to fly.

  Science, Space source

• [Science fact 8]  A private company dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate off the coast of Canada to promote the growing of plankton capable of absorbing carbon-dioxide from the air. It is the world's most significant geoengineering project to date.

  Science, Weather source

• [Science fact 9]  Ice cream was first invented in seventh-century China, where King Tang of Shang had a group of “ice men” create a cold dessert made from buffalo milk, flour, and camphor.

  Food, Food Science, Ice Cream, Science

• [Science fact 10]  Radio waves travel faster than sound waves. If you stand at the base of Big Ben you can hear the chime on the radio before you hear it in real life.

  Architecture, Science source

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