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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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{{Better Than News/February 24}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/February 24}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/February 24}}


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


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{{Are You Sure/February 24}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/February 24}}


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


{{Daily Favorites/February 24}}
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Latest revision as of 14:49, 19 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson built a Digesting Duck automaton with over 400 moving parts in each wing alone, and that the duck could flap its wings, drink water, seemingly digest grain, and seemingly defecate, although what the duck defecated was not the same as what it ate; and that Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world's first flexible rubber tube while in the process of building the duck's intestines?

• ... that America's Got Talents is a televised American weights and measures competition?

Topic of the Day

Star Wars