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== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/February 11}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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{{Are You Sure/February 11}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/February 11}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/February 11}}
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Revision as of 07:09, 10 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; and that Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588?

• ... that the essay Man's Inhumanity to Man by writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes profoundly influenced three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers?

Topic of the Day

Carly Simon