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) Humans and Chimpanzees Have a Common Ancestor – click to visit
• (75) We know that Germs and Viruses exist – click to visit
• (76) The Unfolding Clean Energy Revolution – click to visit
• (77) There is Strong Evidence for Macroevolution – click to visit
• (78) At least 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriages – click to visit
• (79) Steel products built after the war contaminated – click to visit
• (80) Many Google searches have never been searched before – click to visit
• (81) Without carbon dioxide the Earth would be freezing – click to visit
• (82) Why you want the foam on the beer – click to visit
• (83) Schizophrenia is not DID or split personality – click to visit
• (84) The attention helmet used in the army – click to visit
• (85) Ocean acidification global warmings evil twin – click to visit
• (86) It is not too late to address climate change – click to
• (87) The United States and Europe are minor contributors to the plastic waste problem – click to visit
• (88) Human behavior initiating a sixth extinction – click to visit
• (89) Early homo sapiens lived at the same time as many other human species – click to visit
• (90) Evidence for evolution is strong and evidence against it is weak – click to visit
• (91) The evolution of whales is not a mystery – click to visit
• (92) Modern farming techniques have greatly increased cereal yield per acre – click to visit
• (93) The Ballooning US Debt – click to visit
• (94) Industrial Farming has condemned billions of animals to brutal and often short lives – click to visit
• (95) Earth’s Environment had no Oxygen for Two Billion Years – click to visit
• (96) Oceans provide more Oxygen than trees – click to visit
• (97) You Choose Before You Know You Do – click to visit
• (98) We know that homeopathy does not work – click to visit
• (99) Astrology is not science and lack predictive power – click to visit
• (100) The Average Lifespan More Than Doubled Since 1800 – click to visit
• (101) Men don’t have a missing rib – click to visit
• (102) Most bilingual people don’t speak Spanish – click to visit
• (103) Ocean Acidification Global Warmings Evil Twin – click to visit
• (104) Clean Energy is Indeed Very Clean – click to visit
• (105) Almost All Developed Countries Has A Carbon Price – click to visit
• (106) Climate Gate was a Manufactured Scandal – click to visit
• (107) Mind Blowing Quantum Tunneling – click to visit
• (108) The Surprising Wave Particle duality – click to visit
• (109) The Surprising Double slit experiment – click to visit
• (110) Mind Blowing Quantum Entanglement – click to visit
• (111) Animals display compassion – click to visit
• (112) Jesus was not born on Christmas – click to visit
• (113) Coal contains a lot of Uranium – click to visit
• (114) Russel’s Paradox – click to visit
• (115) The First Amendment only Applies to the Government – click to visit
• (116) Alleged Global Cooling in the 1970’s is a myth – click to visit
• (117) The Living Planet Index Disaster – click to visit
• (118) Schizophrenia is not Multiple Personalities – click to visit
• (119) Psychotic is Very Different from Psychopath – click to visit
• (120) The Mandela Effect – click to visit
• (121) The Many False Assertions of Appeal to Authority Fallacy – click to visit
• (122) Vaccines work and do a lot of good – click to visit
• (123) The Sun is White not Yellow – click to visit
• (124) Rachel Carson did not Kill 500 million People – 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) Magnetars Having Magnetic Fields Quadrillions of Times Stronger than Earth – click to visit
• (144) Neutron Stars Gravity is Trillions of Times Stronger than Earth – 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