The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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The Las Vegas Boulevard known as ‘The Strip’ that stretches for 6.8 km doesn’t actually fall within Las Vegas. Vegas goes south towards Sahara Avenue, but The Strip is laid through two incorporated townships: Paradise and Winchester.
Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.
Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.
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The Las Vegas Boulevard known as ‘The Strip’ that stretches for 6.8 km doesn’t actually fall within Las Vegas. Vegas goes south towards Sahara Avenue, but The Strip is laid through two incorporated townships: Paradise and Winchester.
Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.
Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.
In 2008, Japanese scientists founded a protein and named it “Pikachurin.” Why? Because it worked well with electricity. Love it.
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