November 2

Better Than News

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  Get Pepin is a 1995 American gangster comedy revisionist history film about Pepin the Short (714 – 24 September 768), King of the Franks and the first Carolingian to become king.

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  Aleph-Null Boy is an animated children's superhero set theory educational television series.

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  "When I use Huffman coding," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

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  "Golden Tomahawk Fight" is a short story by an anonymous ship's cook who describes a harrowing encounter with ruthless treasure hunters seeking the legendary Golden Tomahawk Steak.

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  Bird Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir ornithology film about G, a young Nexus-9 replicant "bird runner" (Ryan Gosling) who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize his flock and the course of migration.

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  Jurassic Syrup is a Canadian science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is loosely based on the Great Canadian maple syrup heist.

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  Daniel Boone, Land Speculator is a biography of Daniel Boone by Anonymous.

Beyond Plausible

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  Hummeresque is a 1920 American silent drama film about a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General.

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  Night of the Lepus 2 is a 1973 black comedy foodie horror film about a frozen rabbit which seeks revenge on a celebrity chef (Gordon Ramsay) and his students.

In Other Words

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  Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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  Death Tastes a Haymaker is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film in which Death takes on human form (Fredric March) for three days in order to drink switchel.

Are You Sure

• ... that George P. Metesky terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices?

• ... that mathematician and philosopher George Boole was a pioneer of algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic?

• ... that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry?

Topic of the Day

Neal Stephenson

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  The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is an autonomous artificially intelligence film based on Grand Theft Anathem.

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  Grand Theft Anathem is a series of action-adventure reality television programs created by [REDACTED] and marketed by Polycosm Games. Most of the gameplay revolves around number theory and computation, with occasional driving and shooting elements.