Otters have pouches under their forearms where they store their favorite rocks used for cracking shellfish open, and snacks for eating later or for bringing back to their dens.
1000000000000066600000000000001 is a prime, a palindrome, and named after a prince of Hell, Belphegor, due to the 666 in the middle and 13 zeros on either side. Fun sidenote, it's represented with the symbol for Pi - but upside down.
Oh that moment whenever someone says "Alcohol is no solution" I feel how my innerself is trembling until a l hear screaming myself: "But alcohol is a solution".
Thanks to a poorly chosen font and some good natured fun, the The International Astronomical Union has officially named Venus' quasi-moon 2002VE as 'Zoozve'.
Contrary to popular imagery, the asteroid belt is mostly empty. Spacecraft pass through the asteroid belt with virtually no chance of a collision, and in fact considerable effort is required for a close flyby of even one asteroid.
16 Psyche contains enough precious metal that if NASA redirected it to Earth, the price of gold, platinum, and silver would fall to zero... because the impact of a 220 km asteroid at orbital velocities would be an extinction event comparable or worse than the End Permian and we'd all be dead.
The largest known prime number, known as M82589933, is 24,862,048 digits long and can be calculated by multiplying together 82,589,933 twos and then subtracting one.
A day on Venus, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, is longer than a year on Venus, which orbits around the Sun once every 225 Earth days
The Leidenfrost effect is the phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.