• Huffkin@feddit.uk
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    Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

    Oxford University founded in 1326, Aztec empire ~1428-1521

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      Don’t mean to pick, but Oxford was founded in 1096 and Cambridge in 1209.

      I worked for cambridge in 2009 and got a nice little 800 year badge

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      And some of the colleges of Oxford University are older than the university. Merton College was founded in 1264.

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    The country claiming to have the most “freedom” of any country has the highest incarceration rate of any country.

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      Not so fun fact: the constitution allows for slavery as long as it’s a punishment for a crime.

      Hmmm… Nah, those dots don’t connect at all.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    • Wombat feces are cube shaped.
    • Bananas are berries and strawberries are not.
    • Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire.
    • Humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.
  • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    The world is running out of sand.

    It’s one of the most used materials in the world for construction but islands are disappearing because of its limited supply.

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    The closest planet to Earth is Mercury.

    On average that is. Mercury is actually the closest planet to every other planet in average. Because when it’s on the other side of the Sun, it’s still pretty close.

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      Wow, you’re absolutely correct!

      The average distance from Earth to Mercury is about 1.04 astronomical units (au), which is the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

      In comparison, the average distance between Earth and Venus is approximately 1.14 au, while the average distance between Earth and Mars is around 1.7 au.

      You can check that in Wolfram Alpha.

    • fubo@lemmy.world
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      Well, no; Theophania was a common Christian name in the Eastern Roman Empire. “Tiffany” is an English version of Theophania, a Greek Christian name referring to the feast day also known as Epiphany or Three Kings Day. The masculine form is Theophanes.

      “Jennifer” is, by the way, the English form of the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar, also known in French as Guinevere.

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    Almost every atom in your body has been part of other living organisms thousands if not millions of times before.

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      I don’t think this is true for all of them. My cube takes at least a couple hundred rotations and then you have to take the stickers off and move them around to solve it.

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
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    Moose kill more people than bears every year.

    Also Donald Trump was the president of the United States.

  • 1019throw@lemmy.world
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    The northern most part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southern most part of Brazil.

  • mycelium_underground@lemmy.ml
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    if you scramble a rubiks cube up there is a good chance that it is the first cube to be in that state. there are 43,252,003,247,489,856,000 possible states that a cube(3x3) can be scrambled up in to.

  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world
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    A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

    If you start to think about how these lengths of time are defined it becomes clearer.

    1 day = time to rotate on it’s axis once 1 year = time to complete a full rotation around the sun

    For Earth, it takes us ~24hrs to rotate on our axis and 365.25 days to orbit the sun.

    However, because Venus’ axial rotation is so slow (and another interesting fact, it rotates in the opposite direction to other planets) it actually completes a full orbit of the sun before 1 axial rotation.

    Hence, a year is shorter than a day

    For those interested:

    1 Venus day = 243 earth days 1 Venus year = 225 earth days