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  1. Wikipedians are updating the article for Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of the first email system, who has died at 74.

  2. The "Thatcher effect" has nothing to do with politics, but rather describes an illusion about upside-down faces.

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    Everyone is working away at the wikipedia edit-a-thon! I'm improving entries of female cartoonists

  4. Wikipedians are updating the article for Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the United States, who has died at 94.

  5. "Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry." - author Gabriel García Márquez, born this day in 1927.

  6. Open Sesame! This phrase from One Thousand and One Nights may pertain to Babylonian magic practices–with sesame oil.

  7. This day in 1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, defected to the United States.

  8. This day in 1902: Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), the world's most valuable sports team, was founded. .

  9. A little rain never hurt anyone–but what about a Great Flood? A flood myth is present in cultures around the world.

  10. The main "shark" theme of Jaws is a simple alternation between two notes – "E and F" or "F and F sharp".

  11. Mother (nature) knows best: In biomimetics, models and systems of nature are imitated to solve human challenges.

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  13. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Lantern Festival is commercialized as the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day.

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    "It wasn't as intimidating as I thought." - One of our newly minted editors

  15. Not quite the last samurai: Eugène Collache was a French officer who fought for the Shogun.

  16. A 2009 Harvard physics study estimated that the average Google search released 7 grams of carbon dioxide (CO₂).

  17. In 1936, seismologist Inge Lehmann discovered Earth's inner core by studying earthquakes in New Zealand.

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