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Apollo astronauts brought 381 kilograms of moon rocks back to Earth. It is currently illegal to sell these rocks, but you can still own a piece of the moon for the right price. That's because there are also 370 known meteorites on Earth which originally came from the moon.

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There are 277 known meteorites on Earth that originally came from Mars but none that came from Venus.

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The world's rarest rock may be NWA 7325, a meteorite which is thought to have once been part of the planet Mercury. If this is true, it is the only piece of Mercury known to exist on Earth.

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Norway's oil fund owns 1.4% of the global stock market.

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There are 130 women for every 100 men studying at U.S. universities.

12 Comments

Level 46

May 29, 2021

First

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Level 39

May 30, 2021

OMG YOU NEED A NOBEL PRIZE!!! I WILL GO TO NORWAY AND TELL THIS TO NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE

Level 46

May 30, 2021

Did Malala Yousafzai accidentally give it to me.

Level 66

Jun 25, 2021

Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel *Peace* Prize. She isn't an academic laureate.

Level 51

Jan 8, 2024

Sir, you might have mixed up Norway and Sweden.

Level 66

Jun 2, 2021

Third is the one with the treasure chest! :-)

Level 73

May 21, 2022

Straight outta Compton more like Straight out Mercury amirite

Level 55

Dec 4, 2023

Fact #683 has been disproven since at least 2017. Multiple studies have concluded that NWA 7325 is at least 100 million years to old to have originated from Mercury, since Mercury hadn't crystalized yet.

Level 82

Apr 20, 2024

#685 I'm not surprised that there are more women overall but the divides by subject are pretty startling... In my subject (modern languages) only about a third of students in the UK are men. I think this is similar across the humanities, but in the sciences, it's more the opposite.

Level 65

Nov 24, 2025

We were made to feel very unwelcome in the sciences including comp sci. The teachers were excellent, ignored the brats, and after 30 years, the 'tute is much stronger with more self respect and less suicides

Level 26

Feb 6, 2025

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Level 65

Nov 24, 2025

Hanks is the cream in the coffee

Too much Hanks is never enough

I can't note the movies but YOU KNOW