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10.3k sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr
It's a history fact so I am not sure how it will play out but here it is...
The 10th President of the United States John Tyler (President from 1841 to 1845) was born in 1790 or 14 years after the founding of the US. He still has a GRANDSON alive named Harrison Ruffin Tyler! It was pretty big news a few years ago in 2020 when Harrison Ruffin Tyler's brother, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., died. It just goes on to show you how weird time can be that a guy born 234 years ago has a GRANDKID alive! He's 95 now btw!
Heres an article from the Smithsonian about it!
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Is that lady who was still receiving a Civil War pension still alive?
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60 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr
No it appears she died in 2020 according to USA Today she was 90. Time really is a hell of a thing.
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Does that mean a temporary government program has actually ended?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 5 Apr
Lmao yeah I guess that means we actually have had a program end... The number of those you can probably count on one hand sadly....
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This is a leaf sheep, a tiny sea slug that looks like a cartoon sheep. This amazing creature is one of the select few in the world that can use algae for photosynthesis. It gets its energy from the sun, just like plants. Astonishing!
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As a former Science teacher, my mind is blown. Thank you for this
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Snails have the most teeth of any animal

A snail’s mouth may be the size of a pin, but it can have up to 20,000 teeth depending on the species. More surprisingly, the strongest natural material in the world can be found in a species of marine snail’s teeth. Upon close study, limpets’ teeth were shown to be 5 times stronger than spider silk, withstanding extreme pressures that would turn carbon into diamond.
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In America, it is a federal crime to share the password to your Netflix account.
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Did you know?
Picasso and Apollinaire were both arrested (and quickly exonerated) on for stealing the Mona Lisa and other pieces from the Louvre in 1911.1

Footnotes

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Hidden in Plain Sight

One of the most famous flea market finds is almost certainly the discovery of a Dunlap Broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence in 1989. A man was browsing a Pennsylvania flea market for a painting when he came across a piece set in an old, ornate frame. He paid $4 & immediately ripped out the torn painting to repurpose the frame.
Folded & hidden in the back of the painting was a piece of paper that would change his life forever.
The man, publicly identified only as a ‘financial analyst’, would unfold the centuries-old document to see the most significant document in American history: The Declaration of Independence.
It took convincing and multiple years, but the owner eventually brought the document to Sotheby’s Americana printing specialist. The experts at Sotheby’s did more than authenticate the piece as a true, original copy of the Declaration of Independence, but a Dunlap Broadside nonetheless.
In June 1991, the Declaration was sold for $2.42M at Sotheby’s. It set the record for the most valuable piece of printed Americana ever sold, surpassing another Dunlap Broadside which had set the record the previous year.
From that initial $4 ‘investment’ at the flea market, the seller returned an easy $2,174,000 profit (including seller’s fees). It doesn’t feel like an embellishment to say that a 54,349,900.00% return in two years is… quite good.
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It is illegal to kill a sasquatch or “BigFoot” in Canada; sasquatches are legally protected by the Canadian law.
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Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.
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This one resonates for me.
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You can't hum while you're pinching your nose. Try it :)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 6 Apr
Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter.
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A blue whale tongue weight as much as an adult elephant.
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It has been illegal since 1313 to wear a suite of armor in the British Parliament
"that in all Parliaments, Treatises and other Assemblies, which should be made in the Realm of England for ever, that every Man shall come without all Force and Armour"
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Difficulty in Bitcoin is updated every 2016 blocks.
This number is the reverse of the executive order 6102 which made people let go of all their gold.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
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You & ewe are pronounced the same way, despite having no letters in common.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MB 6 Apr
The cobra effect is when a policy (usually from government) is supposed to solve a problem but ends up making it worse or creating a totally new problem.
The name comes from the British government in Delhi, India who wanted to rid the city of venomous cobras so offered a reward for every dead cobra. This was initially a success but then locals started to breed cobras before killing them for more income. The government found this out and scrapped the reward. The breeders released the cobras into the wild creating more snakes than the original problem.
I often think about the cobra effect when governments talk about banning or controlling Bitcoin.
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the funnest fun fact of them all:
Want to have more fun? Consider that maybe all facts are simply projections of our collective. Everyone has a different set of beliefs. For every fact, there is an exception. Nothing is real or objective. In fact, fact is a word that we made up. The less I know, the deeper I go.
Source:
My inner authority
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You have to always remember One hand can't clap,one feet cant run,bird can't fly with one wing,you got to have a queen if you are a king Anthony B feat Aisha, someone loves yiu
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SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use.
It is maintained by three people. They don't allow outside contributions.
Cheers
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Don't know if that's a fun fact. I have had many visits to Nepal, which is hardly 100Kms from where I live. I know that mount Everest is also in Nepal. I never had intention to climb the top but wanted to watch the peak from the closest. So, I made plans with some of my friends to reach at least to the base camp, which I believed was only in Nepal. But when I reached there somebody told us that he had gone to the Tibet base camp and climbed up to Mount Everest from the Northern Side. We were young and we believed that he might be right. But eventually, we came to know that the north base camp in China does not allow anyone to climb up to the Everest.

So, the fun fact is that 'Mount Everest has two base camps but you can only climb up the Everest from the Nepalese base camp.

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Happy Birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto. 🎂 Yes, today, April 5th, 1975 is the birthday Satoshi chose to enter when signing up for some online, peer-to-peer forum.
Now, this is likely not the day he was actually born, but I do believe that Satoshi never did anything that didn't contain deep meaning.
So let's take a look. The reason I believe he chose April 5th is because on April 5, 1933, President Roosevelt issued Article 6102, confiscating gold from all U.S. citizens. Satoshi would also flip this number (2016) for Bitcoin   's    difficulty adjustment, which is the sole item that makes bitcoin   conscious.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MB 6 Apr
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