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    29 Nov 2016

    Wikipedia founder gets odd request on Twitter related to fundraising.

    Wikipedia: Willing to do what it takes to win your support. https://donate.wikimedia.org #ilovewikipedia
    29 replies 200 retweets 448 likes
  2. 2 hours ago

    Born this day in 1412: Joan of Arc, martyred and named a heroine of France for her part in the Hundred Years' War.

    19 retweets 20 likes
  3. 6 hours ago

    Mudskippers are amphibious fish that use their fins to walk on land and can breathe through their skin.

    1 reply 9 retweets 16 likes
  4. 8 hours ago

    Born this day in 1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago, whose work helped uncover key discoveries about the genetic code.

    8 retweets 11 likes
  5. 12 hours ago

    What were Wikipedia's most-viewed articles of 2016?

    5 retweets 10 likes
  6. 16 hours ago

    An ostinato is a motif in music that persistently repeats throughout the song.

    1 reply 4 retweets 13 likes
  7. 17 hours ago

    1) Donald Trump 2) Deaths in 2016 3) Prince English Wikipedia's most-read articles of 2016, by .

    46 retweets 39 likes
  8. 19 hours ago

    Born this day in 1931: Choreographer Alvin Ailey, whose Revelations may be the world's best known dance performance.

    2 retweets 12 likes
  9. 22 hours ago

    What were the most read English articles in 2016? Find out!

    14 retweets 11 likes
  10. 21 hours ago

    We have the grooviest maths. Zoom into a Mandelbrot set by Yannick Gingras in public domain on Wikimedia Commons:

    Zoom into a Mandelbrot set
    Zoom into a Mandelbrot set by Yannick Gingras in public domain on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFractal-zoom-1-15-rupture.ogg#file
    25 retweets 60 likes
  11. 23 hours ago

    Wikipedia's most-read articles of 2016.

    9 retweets 19 likes
  12. 23 hours ago

    On this day in 1895: French former officer Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

    1 reply 20 retweets 17 likes
  13. Jan 4

    Take part remotely in Wikimedia Developer Summit next week! Sign up here to get updates.

    12 retweets 9 likes
  14. Jan 5

    Real-time captioning for video and television programming may be more complicated than it looks:

    1 reply 5 retweets 13 likes
  15. Jan 5

    Born this day in 1941: Acclaimed animator and co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.

    1 reply 45 retweets 55 likes
  16. Jan 4

    On this day in 1875: Paris' Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, was inaugurated.

    12 retweets 33 likes
  17. Jan 4

    A great horned owl on her nest. There are around 200 species of owls.

    15 retweets 51 likes
  18. Jan 4

    Harmless animals use Batesian mimicry to imitate the warning signals of a more dangerous species.

    6 retweets 28 likes
  19. Jan 4

    The first pair of eyeglasses were invented in Italy around 1286.

    16 retweets 28 likes
  20. Jan 4

    Born this day in 1643: English physicist Isaac Newton, who is co-credited with developing modern calculus.

    2 replies 34 retweets 63 likes
  21. Jan 4

    English opening line "There once was a man from Nantucket" is so well known, it can be used as a standalone joke:

    1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes

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