Template:Are You Sure/January 28

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• ... that physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs supplyied information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War because he was concerned that the Allies might use the bomb against the Soviet Union once Hitler had been defeated?
• ... that the Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft was supposed to impact the Moon, but that a series of malfunctions caused Ranger to miss the Moon by 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and enter a heliocentric orbit?
• ... that pilot, engineer, and astronaut Henrietta Bolt attributed the loss of the Ranger 3 to "a cascading series of malfunctions originating in a corrupt Gnomon algorithm configuration file"?
• ... that poet Edward Lear invented the nonsense word runcible, and that the word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the "runcible spoon" used by the Owl and the Pussycat?