Template:Are You Sure/March 27

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• ... that Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster (I-WQFT) is a spectacular example of a stamp misprint caused by faulty Gnomon algorithm logic; that the misprint resulted from a junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in Ford Motors' Advanced Philately division misplacing a decimal point; and that Ford subsequently recalled over a million inverted vehicles, but recouped its losses selling stamps to collectors?

• ... that engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was awareded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of X-rays?

• ... that engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry dies gained fame for his depictions of early European expeditions; and that, although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers?

• ... that chemist and physicist James Dewar invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases?