If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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Omega Centauri is the largest known “globular cluster” in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are high concentrations of stars grouped together by gravity. Omega Centauri contains approximately 10 million stars, with a mass of four million suns!
Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.
Hummingbirds are small. Bee Hummingbirds are so small that they’re sometimes mistaken for insects (hence the name)! They’re the smallest bird in the world and are two and a quarter inches long and weigh less than a dime.
Fact Lab
Omega Centauri is the largest known “globular cluster” in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are high concentrations of stars grouped together by gravity. Omega Centauri contains approximately 10 million stars, with a mass of four million suns!
Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.
Hummingbirds are small. Bee Hummingbirds are so small that they’re sometimes mistaken for insects (hence the name)! They’re the smallest bird in the world and are two and a quarter inches long and weigh less than a dime.
Robert Hooke unknowingly discovered plant cells. In 1665, he used a compound microscope to examine a wide variety of objects. On observing the surface of a cork, he noted down 'pores', which were in fact plant cells!