#KnowledgeBit: #Belphegor's prime is the palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001, named after the demon Belphegor, due to its containing "666" (the Number of the Beast) and being surrounded by thirteen zeroes on either side.

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Grandfather Paradox The grandfather paradox is an unexplainable situation regarding time travel. It is one type of temporal paradox (paradox involving time).

#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.

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Blue Mach Diamond "Blue Mach diamonds," or shock diamonds, are alternating bright and dark patches in the exhaust plume of supersonic rockets and jets, indicating a complex interplay of pressure and temperature changes...

#KnowledgeBit: "Blue Mach diamonds," or shock diamonds, are alternating bright and dark patches in the exhaust plume of supersonic rockets and jets, indicating a complex interplay of pressure and temperature changes in the exhaust stream.

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Hoba Meteorite The Hoba meteorite, located near Grootfontein in Namibia, is the largest known intact meteorite and the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron on Earth’s surface.

#KnowledgeBit: The #Hoba #Meteorite is the world's largest known meteorite, located near Grootfontein, Namibia.

The meteorite was discovered accidentally in 1920 when a farmer's plow hit it, and it has since been designated a national monument.

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Sanquhar Post Office Did you know about 'Sanquhar Post Office'?

#KnowledgeBit: Post office on High Street in #Sanquhar, Scotland opened its door in 1712.

Sanquhar is recognised as the world's #Oldest by both the Universal Postal Union and the #Guinness Book of World Records.

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Dimidium Did you know about 'Dimidium'?

#KnowledgeBit: 51 Pegasi b, officially named #Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years (15 parsecs) away in the constellation of Pegasus.

It was the first #Exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star.

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Ring Galaxy A ring galaxy is a galaxy with a circle-like appearance. Hoag's Object, discovered by Art Hoag in 1950, is an example of a ring galaxy.

#KnowledgeBit: Ring galaxies are galaxies with a distinctive, circular, ring-like appearance, often formed from the impact of a smaller galaxy passing through the center of a larger one.

This collision creates a wave of star formation.

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Olivine Did you know about 'Olivine'?

#KnowledgeBit: #Olivine is one of the primary components of the Earth's upper mantle. It is a common mineral in Earth's subsurface, but weathers quickly on the surface.

It is proposed as a good candidate for accelerated weathering to sequester carbon dioxide.

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Homology Did you know about 'Homology'?

#KnowledgeBit: In biology, #Homology is similarity due to shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa.

A common example of homologous structures is the forelimbs of vertebrates.

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Pioneer 10 Did you know about 'Pioneer 10'?

#KnowledgeBit: #Pioneer 10 is an American space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.

Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the #AsteroidBelt.

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Subsun A subsun is an optical phenomenon that appears as a bright spot directly below the Sun. It's a type of halo, similar to a sun dog, but formed by reflection off ice crystals rather than refraction.

#KnowledgeBit: A #Subsun is an #Optical #Phenomenon that appears as a bright spot directly below the Sun.

It's a type of halo, similar to a sun dog, but formed by reflection off ice crystals rather than refraction.

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Genesis Rock Officially designated as sample 15415, the Genesis Rock is a lunar rock sample retrieved by Apollo 15 astronauts James Irwin and David Scott in 1971.

#KnowledgeBit: The #Genesis #Rock is a lunar sample collected by the Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. It's the first sample of the moon's early crust.

It played a key role in supporting the "magma ocean" hypothesis.

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Sistine Chapel of the Ancients Did you know about 'Sistine Chapel of the Ancients'?

#KnowledgeBit: The #Sistine #Chapel of the ancients is an eight-mile stretch of cliff in Colombia that is covered by tens of thousands of paintings created up to 12,500 years ago.

It is one of the world's largest collections of prehistoric #RockArt.

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#KnowledgeBit: A #Langford pairing is a sequence of numbers 1 through n, each appearing twice, where the two occurrences of each number are separated by a distance equal to that number.

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Mons Did you know about 'Mons'?

#KnowledgeBit: #Mons (plural: montes, from the Latin word) is a mountain on a celestial body. The term is used in planetary nomenclature: it is a part of the international names of such features.

Examples: Mons Huygens (Moon) and Olympus Mons (Mars).

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Kolmogorov Complexity Did you know about 'Kolmogorov Complexity'?

#KnowledgeBit: In #Information theory, the #Kolmogorov #Complexity of a string is defined as the length of the #Shortest #Program that can generate that string as output.

It provides a way to quantify the information content of a string

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Pale Blue Dot Did you know about 'Pale Blue Dot'?

#KnowledgeBit: Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers.

The phrase "Pale Blue Dot" was coined by Carl Sagan.

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Ponzo Illusion The Ponzo illusion is a visual illusion where two lines of equal length appear to be different lengths when placed between converging lines, similar to railroad tracks receding into the distance.

#KnowledgeBit: The #Ponzo #Illusion is a visual illusion where two lines of equal length appear to be different lengths when placed between converging lines, similar to railroad tracks receding into the distance.

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Arctic Blue Corridors Arctic “Blue corridors” are migration superhighways that allow whales, seals, walrus and other marine animals to move between locations to find the conditions they need for feeding, giving birth and m...

#KnowledgeBit: #Arctic #BlueCorridors are migration #Superhighways that allow whales, seals, walrus and other marine animals to move between locations to find the conditions they need for feeding, giving birth and mating.

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Orogeny Did you know about 'Orogeny'?

#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.

This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).

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#KnowledgeBit: Mount Fanjing, or Fanjingshan, is part of the Wuling mountain range in southwestern China.

Named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the mountain is home to a conservation area, a nature reserve, and a number of Buddhist temples.

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#KnowledgeBit: Russian chemist Dmitri #Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table. Mendeleev used a solitaire sorting strategy to help arrange the elements.

Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements.

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Sigiriya Did you know about 'Sigiriya'?

#KnowledgeBit: #Sigiriya (#LionRock Sinhala) is an ancient rock fortress in the Central Province, #SriLanka.

Sigiriya today is a #UNESCO listed World Heritage Site. It is one of the best preserved examples of ancient urban planning.

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Carrington Event The Carrington Event was the most powerful Geomagnetic storm ever recorded, occurring in September 1859.

#KnowledgeBit: The #Carrington Event was the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, occurring in September 1859.

It was named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington, who witnessed and documented the solar flare that triggered the event.  

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Maraya Concert Hall The Maraya Concert Hall in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, is a stunning architectural marvel and a hub for cultural events. Clad in nearly 10,000 mirrored panels, it's the largest mirrored building in the world.

#KnowledgeBit: #Maraya Concert Hall in AlUla, #SaudiArabia is the world's largest #Mirrored building, according to Guinness World Records.

The name Maraya comes from the Arabic word for "mirror" or "reflection".

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#KnowledgeBit: A Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon.

These mirages were believed to be fairy castles in the air or false land created by witchcraft to lure sailors.

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#KnowledgeBit: The #Kessler #Syndrome is a scenario proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978.

It describes a self-sustaining cascade of collisions in low Earth orbit (LEO) caused by the increasing density of space debris.

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#KnowledgeBit: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (#OEIS) is a freely accessible online database of integer sequences.

It's a fantastic resource for anyone working with numbers.

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#KnowledgeBit: A #SeaStack is a tall, isolated pillar of rock that stands out from the coastline . They are formed by erosion from wind and waves over long periods of time.

Sea stacks can be found all over the world, in a variety of shapes and sizes.

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#KnowledgeBit: Poecilotheria metallica, also known as the #Peacock #Tarantula, is an Old World species of tarantula. It is the only blue species of the genus Poecilotheria. Like others in its genus it exhibits an intricate fractal-like pattern on the abdomen.

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