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[[File:Baby Sarlacc 1.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Baby Sarlaac|Baby Sarlaac is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, popular as a novelty pet. Adult sarlaacs feed mainly upon condemned criminals and unlucky bounty hunters, while juvenile sarlaacs feed upon insects, rodents, and small hominids such as immature ewoks.]]
• ... that astronomer and mathematician '''[[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]]''' (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?


• ... that '''[[Baby Sarlaac]]''' is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, and that the sarlaac is currently under Extraterrestrial Species Act review by the U.S. Space & Alien Life Service due to the rapid decline of the sarlaac population in its native range?
• ... that mathematician '''[[Vera Faddeeva (nonfiction)|Vera Faddeeva]]''' (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her ''Computational Methods of Linear Algebra'' (1950) was widely acclaimed?


• ... that chemist and x-ray crystallographer '''[[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Elsie Franklin]]''' made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite; but although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely recognized posthumously?
• ... that physicist '''[[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]]''' (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?


• ... that '''[[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Norton Lorenz]]''' was a pioneer of chaos theory, and that Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect?
• ... that '''''[[Titanic Maru]]''''' is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?

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• ... that astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?

• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) was widely acclaimed?

• ... that physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?

• ... that Titanic Maru is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?

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