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== Are You Sure ==
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== Beyond Plausible ==
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== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Selected anniversaries/January 28}}
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== Topic of the Day ==
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{{Daily Favorites/January 28}}
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Revision as of 07:20, 27 January 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs supplied 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 Fatal Recall is a 2021 automotive industry training film about the hidden costs of recalling vehicles. Narration: Sharon Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger?

• ... 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 Goldschläger is a 1964 spy film about liquor smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldschläger, who plans to make Barry Goldwater President of the United States?

• ... 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?

Topic of the Day

Batman