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data/data/facts/space.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "A canton is the blue field behind the stars."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "A giant game of cosmic pool was played when the solar system was first formed billions of years ago. Neptune was hit by an asteroid so big it was knocked sideways on its axis. It orbits with one pole pointed at the sun. Venus was hit so hard it is almost upside down and is the only planet to spin backwards on its axis. And most astronomers believe the Moon was formed when an asteroid almost the size of Mars hit Earth and shot debris into orbit. I wonder who won the game and when is the next tournament?"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "A star has been found moving closer to the sun. In a million years a star named Gliese 710 will have moved to within 6/10ths of a light year from the sun. This is more than six times closer than today’s nearest star, Alpha Centauri, which is over 4 light years away."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Abe Silverstein, who headed NASA's Space Flight Development Program, proposed the name Apollo for the space exploration programs in the 1960's. He chose that legendary Greek name because the virile Apollo was a god who rode through the skies in a magnificent golden chariot. The precedent of naming manned spacecraft for mythological gods had been set earlier with Project Mercury, also named by Silverstein."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "After a blistering day of exploring, astronauts may relax with a nice cold glass of ice water from Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. Since there is no atmosphere there to spread the heat around, shadows in deep craters at the poles could hold ice deposited by early comet collisions."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after characters from Shakespeare."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Astronomers know Mars is a backwards planet. Once a year, for several days, it appears to move backwards in its orbit. This is actually an optical illusion when the faster orbit of Earth races past Mars."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Black Holes are disappearing! At first, it was believed that nothing could come out of a black hole and they would be around forever. But a famous physicist, named Stephen Hawkings, discovered that black holes lose energy and eventually evaporate away. But don’t wait around for one to “disappear” because it will take trillions and trillions of years to happen."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "During a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same crescent shape of the eclipsing sun. The image is made by light passing through tiny holes in the leaves."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Every day, more than 1,000 gallons of water are lost into space from the top of Earth’s atmosphere. Yet there is about as much water on Earth as there was 3 billion years ago."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Five Saturn moons were found in the late 1600’s."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Geologists have discovered there seems to be more water miles deep between the rocks of Earths mantle than in all the oceans of the world. The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps the hot water from turning to steam and escaping."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If Earth were the size of an apple, its atmosphere would be thinner than the skin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If you counted 100 stars a minute, it would take 2,000 years to count all the stars in our galaxy."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "If you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of water, it would float!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "In the weightlessness of space, an astronaut's heart shrinks."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Jupiter is a planet made entirely of gases."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Jupiter’s four biggest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto – were discovered in 1610."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Jupiter’s giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Monks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater. It was a good thing the Moon was between us and the meteor!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "NASA scientists are still receiving data from Voyager even though the signal it is emitting has less energy than that emitted by a blowdrier."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Not all stars are found inside galaxies. Astronomers have found stars moving between the galaxies, which are millions of light years apart. These stars may even have planets, possibly with intelligent life on them. If they do, these beings would see a lonely sky with just one star (its own sun) and a few faint galaxies."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "On a clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000 stars in the sky."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor -- the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Our sun is over 2.5 million miles around at its equator."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Pluto’s moon (I grew up calling it a planet and it will always be a planet to me), Charon, was not discovered until 1978."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Saturn’s moon, Titan, actually has many geysers spewing out of its south poles. Scientists have said that the geysers are very similiar to the ones here on earth."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "See the rings of Saturn while you can. They slowly wobble up and down over the years as Saturns poles point away from then towards the sun. The rings disappear when edge on to our line of sight. Currently they are almost at their widest point and can be seen even in binoculars and small telescopes."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Shakespeare’s tombstone in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church bears this inscription, said to have been written by him: Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear to dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones”."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Someday you may go ice fishing on Jupiters moon, Europa. Evidence is being constantly discovered that there is an ocean under the ice of Europa. The ice would keep the ocean from evaporating and huge tides caused by Jupiter would keep the ocean temperature above freezing. What kinds of life might there be in such a strange ocean?"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Stars viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced “beetle jooze”), have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Steel floats in mercury."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The Hindus of India once believed that the Earth was a huge bowl (to keep the oceans from falling off) held up by giant elephants standing on long pillars. No one back then ever thought to ask what the pillars were standing on!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The Hubble Telescope has photographed pictures of auroras on Jupiter and Saturn very much like those at our North and South Poles. But if we had auroras as big as these, they would cover the entire Earth and more."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The largest crater on the moon measures 183 miles across."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The name of the asteroid that was believed to have killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub. (Pronounced Sheesh-uh-loob)"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The only man made structure visible from space is the great wall of China."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The only planet without a ring is earth."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "The word galaxy comes from the Greek word for milk, galacticos"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system – Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "When the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781 it was named “Georgium Sidium” in honor of King George III of England. For many years the planet was known as the “Georgian.” Not until 1850 was it christened Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming planets for Roman Gods."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "When you think you’re standing still remember this fact. Even though you don’t feel it, our entire local group of galaxies is moving at about one million miles per hour toward another galaxy group called the Virgo Cluster."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "space",
+    "fact": "Where do comets come from? There is a huge cloud of objects made of ice and rock encircling our solar system, called the Oort Cloud. It lies beyond Pluto and extends half way out to the next star. These objects occasionally bump into each other, sending one in towards the sun to become a comet like the recent Hale-Bopp comet."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/sports.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "A basketball hoop is 18 inches in diameter."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as a 9-0 score. In football it is recorded as a 1-0 score."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "A golf ball, when driven off a tee, can reach speeds up to 170 miles per hour."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "A golf hole is four inches deep."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "A hockey puck weighs 0.38 pounds."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "According to Metropolitan Life Insurance, major league baseball players live significantly longer than the average male – especially if you are a third baseman."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Australian Rules football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Baseball cards have been around since 1886. Modern cards, with high-resolution color photographs on the front and player statistics on the back, date from 1953. The photos are taken in the spring, with and without team caps, just in case the player is traded to another team."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Football was the first team sport added to the Olympics in 1900."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Gene Sarazen, a golfer from several generations ago, set the record for the fastest golf drive: 120 mph."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Golf-great Billy Casper turned golf pro during the Korean War while serving in the Navy. Casper was assigned to operate and build golf driving ranges for the Navy in the San Diego area."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Hockey is called “shinney” in Scotland."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Horse racing is one of the most dangerous sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Horse-racing regulations state that no race horse's name may contain more than eighteen letters. (Names that are too long would be cumbersome on racing sheets.) Apostrophes, hyphens, and spaces between words count as letters."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In 1920 Ray Chapman a shortstop for theCleveland Indians, is the only player ever killed as a result of amajor league baseball game. He was hit in the temple with a pitchand died the next day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, \"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.\" On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In 1964 for the 10th time in his major-league baseball career, Mickey Mantle hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game - setting a new baseball record."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In July 1934 Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In the early days of baseball, between 1840 and 1850, a fielder put a runner out by hitting him with the ball. Home base and the batter's plate were two separate sports (and thus the lineup included a fourth baseman), and there was no distinction between fair and foul balls."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In the early days of boxing, when a boxer was getting throttled and wished to end the bout, he would take his sponge and toss it in the middle of the ring. Thus originated the phrase “to throw in the sponge.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "In the four professional major north american sports (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) only 7 teams have nicknames that do not end with an s."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Jackie Robinson was the only person to letter in four sports at UCLA. Of all of them, he supposedly liked baseball the least."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Jamaica was the first country from the English speaking Caribbean to qualify for the Football World Cup."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!])."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Many Japanese golfers carry \"hole-in-one\" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an \"ace.\" The price for what the Japanese term an \"albatross\" can often reach $10,000."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "On November 29, 1941, the program for the annual Army-Navy football game carried a picture of the Battleship Arizona, captioned: \"It is significant that despite the claims of air enthusiasts no battleship has yet been sunk by bombs.\" Today you can visit the site—now a shrine—where Japanese dive bombers sunk the Arizona at Pearl Harbor only nine days later."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Pro golfer Wayne Levi was the first PGA pro to win a tournament using a colored (orange) ball. He did it in the Hawaiian Open in 1982."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890's invented the game of snow golf. He would paint his golf balls red so that they could be located in the snow."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Aztecs had a primative form of basketball called “ollamalitzli.” The difference from today’s sport is that the first person to get the ball through the ring high above the ground had the right to collect the clothes right off the backs of everyone watching the game."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Cleveland Indians were named in honor of Louis Sockolexis, a native Maine Indian who was the first American Indian to play professional baseball. Before it became the Indians, the Cleveland team was known as the Spiders."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Iditarod dog sled race - from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska - commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome following a diphtheria epidemic."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The Matterhorn at Disneyland in Anaheim has a full basketball court at the very top of the structure, because at the time it was built the only structures that could be that tall were sports arenas."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The exact odds of scoring a hole-in-one in golf on a par three hole are 8,750 to 1."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The football huddle originated at Gallaudet University -- the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf -- in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting plays."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The only person to be elected to both the baseball and football Hall of Fames is Cal Hubbard."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The red and white label on a Campbell’s Soup can comes from the colors of the Cornell University football team."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Timekeepers have clocked the action in a 60 minute football game to actually be around 14 minutes."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Will Clark hit a homerun in his first at-bat in college, the Olympics, and the Major Leagues."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Will Clark, professional baseball player, is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "sports",
+    "fact": "Wyatt Earp became a boxing referee after he retired from law enforcement."
+  }
+]