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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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61 |
Vesto Slipher won the Henry Draper Medal in 1932. |
Science |
07/28/09 |
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62 |
Vernon B. Mountcastle won the National Medal of Science in 1986. |
Science |
08/04/09 |
|
63 |
Venus' axial tilt is 177.3 degrees, the reason for its seemingly retrograde rotation. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/08/11 |
|
64 |
Venus is the second planet from the sun. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/20/08 |
|
65 |
Vannevar Bush won the National Medal of Science in 1963. |
Science |
08/11/09 |
|
66 |
Val Logsdon Fitch won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980. |
Science > Physics |
07/10/09 |
|
67 |
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. |
Science > Astronomy |
04/07/12 |
|
68 |
Unlike in the real numbers and the complex numbers, multiplication in the quaternions is not commutative. |
Science > Math |
09/21/08 |
|
69 |
Ulf von Euler won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1970. |
Science |
07/19/09 |
|
70 |
U is the symbol for the chemical element uranium. |
Science > Chemistry |
06/03/08 |
|
71 |
Two rovers successfully landed on Mars in 2004; the second was Opportunity on January 25. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/07/08 |
|
72 |
Two rovers successfully landed on Mars in 2004; the first was Spirit on January 4. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/03/08 |
|
73 |
Turner Syndrome only affects females. |
Science > Biology |
04/01/09 |
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74 |
Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
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75 |
Trigonometry is the study of the measurement of triangles. |
Science > Math |
09/12/08 |
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