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The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour https://t.co/zIZ5sMvBZq
Along with the iconic #PaleBlueDot picture, 31 years ago #Today, @NASAVoyager 1 also took the wider Solar System Family Portrait https://t.co/ITHy1xzizj
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is implemented by UNESCO and UN-Women and is celebrated on 11 February [read more: https://t.co/wmuWZOnvkR] #WomenInSTEM #WomenScienceDay
This map, spanning over 600 million light years on a side, shows that our Milky Way Galaxy is on the edge of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, which is connected to the Great Attractor -- an even larger grouping of galaxies [read more: https://t.co/xm78iTIcQE]
Inside neutron stars there's a type of degenerate matter found within the crusts that is called 'nuclear pasta' because the geometry of the structures resembles various types of spaghetti, lasagne and bucatini [read more: https://t.co/jDALqnlMqV]
#Today in 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a paper in the journal Nature announcing the discovery of two planets circling an incredibly dense, rapidly rotating stellar corpse known as a pulsar https://t.co/rJLkD9pq5h
This image shows the statistic results about exoplanets distances in 2014, but the numbers have not changed so much. Most of the discovered exoplanets still lies in a very small section of our galaxy [image: https://t.co/eTYE1NwnVk] [more recent data: https://t.co/urcKgbMoKf]
Many drivers go to great lengths to avoid having to parallel park. This gif tries to give you a tutorial for a proper parallel parking maneuver [source, read the tutorial: https://t.co/nAHKQVRG3o]
Cetomimidae is a family of small, deep-sea cetomimiform fish. They are among the most deep-living fish known, with some species recorded at depths in excess of 3,500 m (11,500 ft) [read more: https://t.co/vFTtCVy7Ej] [source of the gif: https://t.co/KhD31Jkeso]
Botulinum toxin is the most poisonous substance known. It is estimated that a single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed & inhaled, can kill more than one million people and a couple of kg would kill every human on earth https://t.co/d41GjM2Lup [https://t.co/wlL22lCAHc]