- Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
- Heart attacks are slightly more likely to occur on Mondays than on any other day of the week.
- Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.
- White cats with blue eyes have a much higher likelihood of being deaf than other cats.
- The exoplanet 55 Cancri e is thought to contain enormous amounts of carbon, leading to speculation that parts of it could be diamond rich.
- Astronomers have discovered enormous clouds of water vapor in deep space, including one estimated to contain 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined.
- A tiny fraction of the static seen on old analog televisions came from the Cosmic Microwave Background — the leftover radiation from the Big Bang.
- Footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the Moon could remain for millions of years because the Moon has virtually no atmosphere, wind, or liquid water.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
