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Interesting Science Facts Confirmed and Debunked
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhen reeling off dubious facts (like lemmings plunging off cliffs en masse), there's no better retort to a skeptical audience than calmly explaining that...
Why don't hurricanes form at the equator?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHere we see a huge hurricane in a satellite image against the blue ocean background. The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in...
Fact check: Ample evidence the Earth is round and rotating, contrary to persistent social media...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe claim: Earth isn't curved and doesn't rotate Humans discovered the curvature and rotation of the Earth thousands of years ago, dating back to ancient Greece. Since then, scientists have ...
Circle the date! It's Pi Day today!
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHappy Pi Day, the annual celebration of this incredible, mysterious, and irrational mathematical constant. Okay, so Pi — most commonly written as the...
Fact check: Flat Earth claim misunderstands Earth's motion, shape, gravity
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: Earth isn't curved or moving; air pressure couldn't exist 'without a container' Some social media users are sharing a meme that claims to present evidence that Earth is flat instead ...