The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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If you think about your time in school, which language class did you end up taking? If you grew up in the UK, you probably learned French! French is the most widely taught foreign language in the UK.
Even the Earth could become a black hole if you compressed it to the size of a peanut. Now try to imagine a supermassive black hole with the incredible mass of 40 billion solar masses! That's what lurks within Holmberg 15A inside the Abell 85 galaxy cluster.
Ireland is the world’s only country to have a musical instrument as a national symbol - the Irish harp!
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If you think about your time in school, which language class did you end up taking? If you grew up in the UK, you probably learned French! French is the most widely taught foreign language in the UK.
Even the Earth could become a black hole if you compressed it to the size of a peanut. Now try to imagine a supermassive black hole with the incredible mass of 40 billion solar masses! That's what lurks within Holmberg 15A inside the Abell 85 galaxy cluster.
Ireland is the world’s only country to have a musical instrument as a national symbol - the Irish harp!
There is a bird featured on the American silver dollar which was modelled on a real eagle called Peter! Peter was adopted by the American mint from 1830 to 1836 and was used as a model for drawings. Peter was then stuffed and he’s still on display today!
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