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Fun Fact:
The "World's Smallest Park" is Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon.
The park is 452 square inches is area.
Mill Ends Park is a tiny urban park, consisting of one tree, located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway in downtown Portland, Oregon. The park is a small circle 2 feet across, with a total area of 452 square inches (0.00007205784 acres). It is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, which first granted it this recognition in 1971.
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Studies show that dogs wag their tails to the right when they are happy or confident and to the left when they are frightened and there is a reason for this. The left side of the brain controls movement on the right side of the body and vice versa.
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Cool...Au au
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Did you know the original Bitcoin Client v0.1, had unfinished code for a Poker game and an eBay-style marketplace in the source code?
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You can't hum when you hold your nose!
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @antic 12 Jan
I can, just in small bursts :)
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 12 Jan
Damn, you're right! Who would have thought?
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Avocados 🥑 🥑 are a fruit, not a vegetable.
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Streets in old Cities in Morocco are so narrow to increase time in shadow - some with only a few minutes of sunlight a day. Some also have gates that counterintuitively get opened at night (instead of closed at night)to let the wind blow cold night air through. Nifty little system.
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The first person convicted of speeding was going just 8 mph 🚙💨
According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On January 28, 1896. Arnold was spotted going 4 times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz. Since the speed limit at the time was just 2 miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 & 7 shillings, which is equivalent to approx £480 or around 600USD in today's fiat or 1,366,902 Sats
I always approach these stories with a healthy dose of skepticism, so I did a little digging and also tried to find a photo of what the car might have looked like. What came up in a search were cars called Arnold-Benz. I thought, hang on, that’s the guy’s surname. Coincidence? It turns out, Walter was one of the earliest car dealers in the country and the local supplier for Benz vehicles (that was before Mercedes and Benz merged). He set up his own car company producing “Arnold” motor carriages at the same time. The subsequent publicity surrounding his speeding offence probably wasn’t entirely unwelcome, and it was certainly a game changer for the automobile.
Well, how convenient! As they say any publicity is good publicity.
So, what do you think? A planned publicity stunt way back in 1896?
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Lalla Ward, Romana II from the Tom Baker years who was Married to Richard Dawkins for a time, was related to Mary Ward, the first victim of a car accident in 1869. Tom Baker began his tenure as the doctor driving the Third Doctor's "Edwardian vintage Roadster".
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"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" is a palindrome.
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64 sats \ 2 replies \ @antic 12 Jan
Fun Fact: ETF Launches don't change that 1 BTC = 1 BTC.
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also don't change that not your keys, not your coins:)
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With all the FUD spread by “important” people latest. We need to understand their motives. Here are the facts on illicit activities. See the Source as it’s them!
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The top mind in theoretical physics (Ed Witten) is the son of the leading anti-gravity researcher from the 1950's (Louis Witten), who was the first hire at the confusingly named Research Institute for Advanced Study, a Martin-Marietta research lab, which later became Lockheed-Martin in 1995.
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15 Years ago Halfin started running bitcoin
Exactly 15 years after the SEC approves $BTC ETF ✅
10 of January, what a day to be remembered!
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Fun Fact:
The XFL and USFL are merging, to form the UFL.
The conferences will be XFL and USFL.
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A single rainforest can produce 20% of the Earth's oxygen.
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A person who plays videogames is more likely to have dreams in third person.
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The white man is the villain in a western society, while everyone else is the victim.
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Halving time! We will have the hardest Monet every created with the lowest ever inflation rate well under 1%
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The hour is named after the Egyptian god Horis.
Qué hora?
In Spanish literally means, Where is Horis.
We also get horizon from this term.
The ancient symbol for the sun is a circle with a dot in the middle. This is a watch face.
You have an hour hand (Horis) and a minute (moon) hand.
The diameter of a circle comes from the root of Dios, Theo, Zeros, Deva which all are roots to the term for God/God's which literally means light.
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ETF’s will require a substantial amount of time to snatch enough spot BTC to pump price. It’ll happen, though.
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"No to the SEC, yes to the nsec" Exodia38
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American biologists Craig Bartle and Alfred Charles Kinsey reported that fewer than 1% of males can successfully orally contact their own penis and that only 2 or 3 men in a thousand could perform a full autofellatio.
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Did you know – it’s impossible to lick your elbow. You’re probably trying it, anyway!
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There is a town in Norway named Hell. Therefore, it's entirely possible to say it's freezing or frozen in Hell, especially during the harsh winters in the region.
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Also in Michigan.
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We've sent a Bitcoin to space! On august 30th 2016, we've sent a Bitcoin to the stratosphere (34km altitude) and made the first peer-to-peer transaction in space! Bitcoin IS 100% digital and can be sent ANYWHERE, they have no borders. You can check out the transaction on the Bitcoin Blockchain, which was sent at about 33.406 meters: https://blockchain.info/address/1MoonKQMvcajtaZB14Qfr8vCv9dr6Q8WEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnSYVo_5dXM
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367 sats \ 3 replies \ @davidw 12 Jan
Throwback Thursday - obscure events that happened on this day in prior years (so we learn more about history @kr)
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227 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 12 Jan
the first try didn’t get much attention, will try again next week
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yeah, I thought SN felt like changing the topic because it didn't get much attention, how about changing it to : Let's hear some historical events that you think other stackers should know about, and most importantly, what did you learn from it? Any topic counts.
Because knowing the events is meaningless, what really matter are what we learn from them.
or, make it easier - what did you learn this week? 😂 as I mute history like @davidw too.
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357 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 12 Jan
Maybe my subconscious saw that post, but I definitely missed it 😆 (probably because I muted ~history)
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cowboy 13 Jan
Rest day! (Kidding)
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cowboys don't take holidays , so the host ( SN ) 🤓
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