These True Facts Sound Incredibly Fake

Mother Russia

Russia is huge. This truly massive country might look big on a map, but it also looks big in space! The surface area of Pluto is less than that of Russia. Pluto is about 1.67 x 107 square kilometers, and while it's pretty close to the same size as Russia, it's just a little bit smaller. Hey, maybe we can get Russia declared to be its own planet!

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The More You Know

  • You can survive being in outer space without permanent damage for about half a minute.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
  • The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
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