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    Jan 15

    ✨🎂 IT’S MY BIRTHDAY 🎂✨

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  2. 4 minutes ago

    Marjorie Eaton was the first person to portray Star War's Emperor Palpatine, but as she was not credited for it, Eaton's role remained largely anonymous for many years.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    For a while, their claim to fame was how well they kept while traveling. One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well, was the jumble, a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    COOKIE FACTS. The first cookie may have come out of 7th century Persia—unsurprisingly, around the same time that sugar became a commodity in the area.

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    cookie facts? 🧐🍪
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  5. 2 hours ago

    Facts 🤓

    cookies 🍪
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  6. 3 hours ago

    Or is Wikipedia a digital museum? 🤔

    Museums are just 3D
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  7. 14 hours ago

    Our vision asks us to imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Donations like these get us that much closer to turning our dreams into reality. Thank you, .

    I will literally and definitely be opening champagne this evening. I just received this message on . cc
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  8. 20 hours ago

    Can ocelots be kept as pets? Bobcats? Cheetahs? The answer is: kinda.

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  9. 23 hours ago

    Terry the Cairn Terrier, best known for her role as Toto in "Wizard of Oz," earned a salary of $125 per week, more than that of many human actors in the film. She also earned more than many working Americans at the time.

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  10. Retweeted
    Apr 11

    🙏🏾💞👏🏾 for helping us see hole for the first time in human history! Sadly, we can't (yet) see you on - the existing image is nominated for deletion. We would love to help change this, please ping us!

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  11. Apr 11

    A rollover in an auto polo match was dangerous, as your car didn't have a roof. There's also a large jet of what looks like hot steam shooting out of the engine.
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  12. Apr 11

    One person's driving an early car, another is partway through swinging a mallet. Not unlike a cavalry charge.
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  13. Apr 11

    Auto polo, devised by a Ford dealer, was described by a British car magazine as "a lunatic game." Players called mallet men held onto the sides of cars while trying to hit a basketball with a three-pound polo mallet. ~5,000 people attended a match in 1912.

    This historic photo has two cars, four people, and two people on each car. One person drives, the other swings a polo mallet. Here, two people are in midair after getting thwacked off their car.
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  14. Retweeted
    Apr 10

    A/Prof Katie Bouman first learned about the whilst at high school. Her algorithm, Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP), was the first to image a supermassive black hole. New page:

    Katie Bouman with the huge stack of hard drives used for image data
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  15. Apr 11

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    is literally the reason why I’m getting my masters. Blessing us students with knowledge since day one
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  16. Apr 10

    This one doesn't pinpoint the *exact* meaning, but it makes an extremely comprehensive attempt!

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    Is there a page that reveals the meaning of life?
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  17. Apr 10

    The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilizations.

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  18. Retweeted
    Apr 10

    Contributing to the global pool of open knowledge is one of the reasons why in the curriculum assignments are so powerful

    Encouraging students to publish their work in the open maybe changes the nature and goal of assessment, orienting it away from the grade towards the audience. Recongnises student work as making knowledge instead of 'just practising' making knowledge.
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  19. Apr 10

    Astronomers have "seen the unseeable," according to the New York Times, and captured the first-ever direct image of a black hole. Here it is:

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  20. Apr 10

    if you don't love me at my wurst then you don’t deserve me at my Best.

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  21. Apr 9

    Limited research exists on the health benefits on tannins, although they can be found in wines, teas, chocolates, herbs, and many more types of food and drink. A list of food items containing tannins:

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