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Old gross facts molder here in the compost bin of confirmation that is the "Truth Vault".

Old nasty facts:

Time is NOT measured in inches.

Chimpanzees are not monkeys. Chimpanzee are part of the family Hominidae which are known as the great apes.

Electric* Cars** Can Catch Fire

*also other cars that run on other types of stored energy

**ebikes also***

***e-bicycle and e-motorcycle

The Earth isn't round, it's an oblate spheroid.

Most of Illinois isn't near Chicago. True story. 10/22/2020

According to a pre-publication paper* titled "A crocodylian-style cloaca in a non-avialan dinosaur," some dinosaurs had crocodile-like butt holes.

*Pre-publication papers are really just PDFs someone found on the internet. They aren't peer reviewed or accepted for publication.

According to math nerds doing nerd math, some people are genetically predisposed to being math nerds.*

*This paper uses a small sample size, you may be genetically predisposed to knowing why that matters. You also may not, because like I said, this study uses a small sample size.

Neurobiological origins of individual differences in mathematical abilityHow does genetic variation give rise to differences in mathematical ability? Combining genotyping with brain imaging in children, this study shows that math performance can be predicted before school entry from individual volume differences of the right parietal cortex that are associated with variations in the cortical growth gene ROBO1.

The moon walk may be a soggy slog. It turns out the moon is moist.

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of MoonNASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.

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