#ScienceFact - The scientific name for the Western Lowland Gorilla sounds like the incantation for summoning a gorilla.

Just so it doesn’t digest itself, every minute the surface lining of your stomach sheds some 500,000 cells, and it completely replaces itself in three days.

@argv_minus_one
Actually, #ScienceFact, we are all emotional decision-makers. The rational part of our brain is only there to make up a good excuse for what we've done.

When our actions and values don't quite line up, as they are doing for many on the MAGA side and the extreme left, we use cognitive dissonance to help convince ourselves that they are aligned and we don't have to change at all.

The person who cuts down the last tree in the Amazon rainforest will have a good reason for it.

Ha! #ScienceFact Sex and gender are neurologically distinct making them separate concepts. Your junk don't define you. What you think of yourself, does.

https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-find-sex-and-gender-map-onto-different-parts-of-the-brain-in-children/

Next time you make a wish upon a shooting star, remember you might be wishing upon astronaut poop.

At their closest, Europe and Africa are only 13km (8mi) apart.

The first CubeSat mission known as MarCO (Mars CubeOne) were the first CubeSats to travel beyond Earth orbit and successfully relay data from another planet.

Fun sidenote - MarCO consisted of two CubeSats, nicknamed "Wall-E" and "Eve."

The Avogadro Project produced the most perfect sphere in the world, a single crystal of silicon-28 atoms, precisely 1kg and 93.6mm in diameter.

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest country without a lake or river.

Without touching a single piece of land, it's possible to sail from Alaska to India in a completely straight line.

More precisely, along a geodesic, or a curve that constitutes the shortest path (arc) between two points on a surface, like a spheroid.

Oumuamua is not a spacecraft.

Thanks Fun Fact Science with Kovi!

peppa pig bandaids heal booboos 15% faster. #ScienceFact

Guten Morgen! Was war gestern schön was hat euch gefreut? Es sind die kleinen Dinge die zählen. Wenn ihr mögt, lasst eure #diekleinendinge hier.

Hier: gab es Spargel. Der enthält Asparagusinsäure. Deren Abbau führt zu schwefelhaltigen Produkten die über den Urin ausgeschieden werden und zum charakteristischen Geruch führen. Aufgrund einer einzigen Base Unterschied in der DNA Sequenz eines Gen entwickeln diesen Geruch nur etwa 40-80% der Menschen. #ScienceFact #SlowFood #spargel

Shout out to you, if like me you heard the news about the #ESA #juiceMisson launch and went, "Hey! That's one of the #satellites that will eventually become sentient in the year 17776!"

If not, I got you fam.
Make a cup of tea.
This will take some time.
It's OK, it's not *really* about football.
I promise it's worth it.

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

The world's highest active volcano, Nevados Ojos del Salado, rises to 6,879 m along the Chile-Argentina border. The volcano lies about 20 km south of the road that crosses the international border at Paso de San Francisco.