Super Facts

What is a Super Fact?

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  • A simply stated fact that we know to be true based on evidence, scientific concensus and/or expertise.
  • It is important and not trivia.
  • It is a surprising or widely misunderstood or disputed fact (among non-experts). You could say super facts are pills that are hard to swallow for some people. Explaining a super fact is often what is called myth busting.

In other words, super facts are very special facts. Studying and understanding them will help you grow as a person.

  • (1) We Know That the Earth is Billions of Years Old – click to visit
  • (2) Some Things Cannot be Known – click to visit
  • (3) Economic Externalities Are Spoilers of Free Markets – click to visit
  • (4) The Speed of Light In Vacuum Is a Universal Constant – click to visit
  • (5) Two events may be simultaneous for some but not for others – click to visit
  • (6) Radon Represents our Largest Exposure to Ionizing Radiation – click to visit
  • (7) Poverty and child mortality has been sharply reduced worldwide – click to visit
  • (8) US violent crime nearly cut in half since 1990 – click to visit
  • (9) We are living in relatively peaceful times – click to visit
  • (10) We are Star Dust – click to visit
  • (11) United States Europe and the Pacific Ocean Are Bigger Than You Might Think – click to visit
  • (12) The United States is a Republic and a Democracy – click to visit
  • (13) The Strange Worlds of Exo Planets – click to visit
  • (14) The vastness of space and the beginning of infinity – click to visit
  • (15) The Bizarre Reality of Black Holes – click to visit
  • (16) Wind power is providing more than a quarter of Texas Power – click to visit
  • (17) Wind power is not a major cause of bird death – click to visit
  • (18) Accents are very difficult to lose – click to visit
  • (19) An account impersonating you on Facebook does not mean you have been hacked – click to visit
  • (20) There are flying Turkeys – click to visit
  • (21) Neutering or spaying a dog at 6 months old can be dangerous to their health – click to visit
  • (22) The Surprising Monty Hall Problem – click to visit
  • (23) GPS uses relativity for accuracy – click to visit
  • (24) Smallpox Killed 300 million People in the Last Century Before Eradication – click to visit
  • (25) Global Warming is Happening and is Caused by us – click to visit
  • (26) The Hockey Stick Graph is not Wrong – click to visit
  • (27) Neanderthals Never Lived in Africa – click to visit
  • (28) That Earth is round was well known long before Columbus – click to visit
  • (29) EV Cars Indeed Emit Less Carbon Pollution – click to visit
  • (30) Eating local is not necessarily ecological – click to visit
  • (31) Eating Organic is not Necessarily Ecological – click to visit
  • (32) Environmental Benefits of Recycling Are Overestimated – click to visit
  • (33) Many Popular Environmental Actions Are Ineffective – click to visit
  • (34) Scientists Agree that Global Warming is happening and that we are the Cause – click to visit
  • (35) Natural Disasters Kill Less People Now Than 100 Years Ago – click to visit
  • (36) Every Symmetry is Associated with a Conservation Law – click to visit
  • (37) There is strong evidence for the Big Bang – click to visit
  • (38) Time Dilation Goes Both Ways – click to visit
  • (39) The Pole-Barn Paradox and Solution – click to visit
  • (40) The Surprising Butterfly effect – click to visit
  • (41) Emissions of ozone-depleting gases have fallen by 99 Percent – click to visit
  • (42) Developed nations have successfully reduced carbon emissions – click to visit
  • (43) The US is the largest cumulative emitter of carbon – click to visit
  • (44) Sulfur dioxide pollution has fallen by 95 percent in the US – click to visit
  • (45) Deforestation peaked back in the 1980s – click to visit
  • (46) There are many environmental success stories – click to visit
  • (47) Ukraine Gave up Thousands of Nuclear Warheads – click to visit
  • (48) We Exploded Thousands of Nuclear Bombs – click to visit
  • (49) There is a lot of Uranium in your Backyard – click to visit
  • (50) The two main classes of beer are ales and lagers – click to visit
  • (51) The US Drug Overdose Epidemic is Extreme – click to visit
  • (52) Climate change worsens wildfires in the US – click to visit
  • (53) The Euler Number Math Magic – click to visit
  • (54) Satellites handle a very small amount of global internet traffic – click to visit
  • (55) The enormous Kuiper belt – click to visit
  • (56) The Bermuda Triangle the Big Non-Mystery – click to visit
  • (57) Half the World’s Population Live within a 2 percent circle – click to visit
  • (58) Time is a fourth dimension – click to visit
  • (59) Electric Charge is not the only type of Fundamental Charge – click to visit
  • (60) Superfluid Liquids are Like Magic – click to visit
  • (61) Vaccines do not cause Autism – click to visit
  • (62) There Are Scientific Facts – click to visit
  • (63) Evolution is a fact – click to visit
  • (64) Eulers Polyhedra Math Magic – click to visit
  • (65) United States is Tornado Country – click to visit
  • (66) More than half of Internet Traffic is Bots – click to visit
  • (67) The Edge of the Observable Universe is 46.5 billion Light Years Away– click to visit
  • (68) Infinities Come in Different Sizes – click to visit
  • (69) Polar Nights Are Phenomenal and Cover a Large Area – click to visit
  • (70) The Wild Mammal Biomass Has Substantially Declined – click to visit
  • (71) The Extinction Rate is Much Higher Than the Natural Baseline Rate – click to visit
  • (72) Oxygen Blue Sky and Complex Life Exist Because of a Bacteria – click to visit
  • (73) The Second Law of Thermodynamics Does Not Contradict Evolution– click to visit
  • (74) Jesus was not born on Christmas – click to visit
  • (75) Magnetars Super Magnets in the Sky– click to visit
  • (76) US National Debt is Ballooning– click to visit
  • (77) Landman Lies – click to visit
  • (78) Neutron Stars Trillions of Times Denser than the Sun – click to visit
  • (79) The Universe has a Redshift and its Increasing – click to visit
  • (80) Conic Sections are the Shapes that Shape Our World – click to visit
  • (81) Humans and Chimpanzees Have a Common Ancestor – click to visit
  • (82) There is Strong Evidence for Macroevolution – click to visit
  • (83) The Unfolding Clean Energy Revolution – click to visit
  • (84) Many Google searches have never been searched before – click to visit
  • (85) Without carbon dioxide the Earth would be freezing – click to visit
  • (86) Why you want the foam on the beer – click to visit
  • (87) Wind Energy is Indeed Clean Energy – click to visit
  • (88) The attention helmet used in the army – click to visit
  • (89) Ocean acidification global warmings evil twin – click to visit
  • (90) It is not too late to address climate change – click to
  • (91) The United States and Europe are minor contributors to the plastic waste problem – click to visit
  • (92) Early homo sapiens lived at the same time as many other human species – click to visit
  • (93) Evidence for evolution is strong and evidence against it is weak – click to visit
  • (94) The evolution of whales is not a mystery – click to visit
  • (95) Modern farming techniques have greatly increased cereal yield per acre – click to visit
  • (96) Industrial Farming has condemned billions of animals to brutal and often short lives – click to visit
  • (97) Earth’s Environment had no Oxygen for Two Billion Years – click to visit
  • (98) Oceans provide more Oxygen than trees – click to visit
  • (99) You Choose Before You Know You Do – click to visit
  • (100) We know that homeopathy does not work – click to visit
  • (101) Astrology is not science and lack predictive power – click to visit
  • (102) The Average Lifespan More Than Doubled Since 1800 – click to visit
  • (103) Men don’t have a missing rib – click to visit
  • (104) Most bilingual people don’t speak Spanish – click to visit
  • (105) Ocean Acidification Global Warmings Evil Twin – click to visit
  • (106) Clean Energy is Indeed Very Clean – click to visit
  • (107) Almost All Developed Countries Has A Carbon Price – click to visit
  • (108) Climate Gate was a Manufactured Scandal – click to visit
  • (109) Mind Blowing Quantum Tunneling – click to visit
  • (110) The Surprising Wave Particle duality – click to visit
  • (111) The Surprising Double slit experiment – click to visit
  • (112) Mind Blowing Quantum Entanglement – click to visit
  • (113) Animals display compassion – click to visit
  • (114) We know that Germs and Viruses exist – click to visit
  • (115) Coal contains a lot of Uranium – click to visit
  • (116) Russel’s Paradox – click to visit
  • (117) The First Amendment only Applies to the Government – click to visit
  • (118) Alleged Global Cooling in the 1970’s is a myth – click to visit
  • (119) Schizophrenia is not Multiple Personalities – click to visit
  • (120) Psychotic is Very Different from Psychopath – click to visit
  • (121) The Mandela Effect – click to visit
  • (122) The Many False Assertions of Appeal to Authority Fallacy – click to visit
  • (123) Vaccines work and do a lot of good – click to visit
  • (124) The Sun is White not Yellow – click to visit
  • (125) The Coldest and Hottest Place in the Universe – click to visit
  • (126) The huge health cost of fossil fuels – click to visit
  • (127) Trees communicate via fungi – click to visit
  • (128) Hundreds of Innocent Death Row Inmates – click to visit
  • (129) The Hidden Large Fossil Fuel Subsidies – click to visit
  • (130) Rachel Carson did not Indirectly Kill 500 million people – click to visit
  • (131) The Universe is Barely Habitable – click to visit
  • (132) Climate Gate was a Fake Scandal – click to visit
  • (133) Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are Loosing Ice – click to visit
  • (134) The Omitted Third verse of the Star Spangled Banner – click to visit
  • (135) Jesus was not born on Christmas – click to visit
  • (136) Before Humans There Were Double as Many Trees – click to visit
  • (137) Renewable Energy and Clean Energy is not the same thing – click to visit
  • (138) Coal contains a lot of Uranium – click to visit
  • (139) Minimum and Maximum Temperatures Exist – click to visit
  • (140) The Decline of the Living Planet Index – click to visit
  • (141) Nuclear Power is Relatively Safe and Clean – click to visit
  • (142) The Mysterious Casimir Effect – click to visit
  • (143) At least 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriages – click to visit
  • (144) Human behavior initiating a sixth extinction – click to visit
  • (145) Reticulated Evolution Happened Often in Human Evolution – click to visit
  • (146) Hybridization can be an Evolutionary Shortcut – click to visit
  • (147) We have become more Resilient to Natural Disasters – click to visit
  • (148) Fossil Fuels have an Enormous Toll on Health – click to visit
  • (149) The Pace of the Current Global Warming is Super-Fast – click to visit
  • (150) China Got a Carbon Tax – click to visit

Factual Posts That Are Not Super Facts

Below is a list of interesting and fact based posts that are not super fact posts. The list includes book reviews for science books and other fact based books and other informational posts.

6 thoughts on “Super Facts”

  1. What a week you had. I applaud your involvement. It’s a shame about that negative comment.

    Your review highlights something many overlook: how one flawed generalization can undermine a book’s trustworthiness, even if its core message is valuable. I admire your commitment to bridging divides—both in action and in how you read.

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    1. Thank you so much Patricia. Yes I get annoyed when an author say something false and annoying even though the rest of the book is good. There are different kinds of readers but I am not very forgiving of that. I should say that I think your comment was meant for a recent book review of mine called for the book High Conflict by Amanda Ripley. Somehow the comment ended up under my list of super facts. But that is fine.

      You are right, some readers like me, scrutinize what they read. An author’s job is not easy.

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  3. May I suggest a superfact for you? Humans and dinosaurs did not coexist.

    Another superfact that I suggest is “Evolution is an observable process” or “evolution is directly observable,” whichever you prefer to call it. Perhaps you will write it as part of either “Evidence for evolution is strong and evidence against it is weak” or “Evolution is a fact.”

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