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Within the lifetime of children being born today, the global human population is projected to begin shrinking for the first time since the Black Death — no country on Earth currently has a fertility rate above 7 children per woman, and dozens of high-income nations have fallen below 1.5 — in a civilizational shift that demographers now expect to end the era of sustained population growth that has defined humanity for the past several thousand years
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The real reason your flight gets canceled has nothing to do with weather on the ground — it starts 150 million kilometres away
The world’s longest direct passenger flight is between New York and Singapore — a non-stop journey covering roughly 15,300 kilometers and taking about 18 hours and 50 minutes — and during that single flight, the aircraft crosses 12 time zones, burns approximately 110,000 kilograms of jet fuel, and passes over more of the Earth’s surface than the entire span of the Roman Empire at its peak
The shortest commercial flight in the world is between two islands in Scotland’s Orkney archipelago — a flight covering just 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles) between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray — and the entire journey, from takeoff to landing, takes about 90 seconds, less than the average time it takes to scroll through a single social media post
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The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years — longer than any other vertebrate on Earth — and when scientists sequenced its genome in September 2024, they found the species’ extraordinary lifespan appears to rely on enormous quantities of duplicated DNA-repair genes, in a biological strategy still keeping individual sharks alive that were born during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao was estimated to be roughly 2,300 years old when it was photographed by researchers — meaning it began growing at the bottom of the ocean during the lifetime of Hannibal and survived as a single continuous living organism, filtering seawater on that exact spot, from before the founding of the Roman Empire until it died of disease in 2012
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The James Webb telescope picked out 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy — a neighbor forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way, in a burst estimated to last only a few hundred million years
There is no permanently dark side of the Moon. The far side gets sunlight just like the near side — we simply don’t see it from Earth because the Moon is tidally locked, taking about as long to spin once as it does to orbit us once.
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Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how little water falls from the sky rather than by heat, and almost nothing falls on the frozen continent.
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