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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==
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{{Beyond Plausible/January 22}}
{{Beyond Plausible/January 22}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/January 22}}


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


{{Are You Sure/January 22}}
{{Are You Sure/January 22}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/January 22}}


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


{{Daily Favorites/January 22}}
{{Daily Favorites/January 22}}

Latest revision as of 09:23, 1 August 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that George Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices; that Metesky was angry and resentful about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier; and that Metesky planted at least 33 bombs, of which 22 exploded, injuring 15 people?

• ... that the 1954 science fiction political thriller film Astronaut Farm is set aboard the Eric Blair Memorial Space Station, and that the film is loosely based on the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell?

• ... that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a prolific inventor of mechanical calculators; and that he invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator?

• ... that Mesopelagium is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone; that Mesopelagium is owned and operated by a cooperative of professional oceanographer-chefs; and that all of the seafood is raised in underground aquaculture tanks which provide the high-pressure, low-light environment necessary to responsibly culture mesopelagic organisms?

Topic of the Day

Food and Beverages