April 17

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Better Than News

  • Friends X is an American science fiction television sitcom which revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live with crippling superpowers.

    Friends X is an American science fiction television sitcom which revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live with crippling superpowers.

  • The Pope's Gladiator is an epic historical supernatural horror film directed by Ridley Scott and Julius Avery, and starring Russell Crowe.

    The Pope's Gladiator is an epic historical supernatural horror film directed by Ridley Scott and Julius Avery, and starring Russell Crowe.

  • New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.

    New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.

  • You're Soaking In It is an erotic comedy-thriller film starring Madge from the famed Palmolive commercials.

    You're Soaking In It is an erotic comedy-thriller film starring Madge from the famed Palmolive commercials.

  • Wick Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed by John Wick for close-quarters combat.

    Wick Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed by John Wick for close-quarters combat.

  • Alien vs. Bugs is a science fiction horror film about an iconic American cartoon figure (Bugs Bunny) who is marked for death by an aggressive alien film franchise.

    Alien vs. Bugs is a science fiction horror film about an iconic American cartoon figure (Bugs Bunny) who is marked for death by an aggressive alien film franchise.

Are You Sure

• ... that scientist, inventor, and poet Piet Hein (who often wrote under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel", meaning "tombstone") is known for short poems, known as gruks or grooks, such as Consolation Grook, which reads:
"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."?

• ... that the Disambiguum is a transdimensional corporation in which all things and all ideas are disambiguated?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

  • 1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

    1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

  • 1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.

    1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

    1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

  • 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

    1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

  • 1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.

    1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.

Topic of the Day

Candy

  • Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.

    Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.

  • Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

    Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

  • "Sweet Tooth, Soldier?" was a World War Two era health program initiated and run by the United States Army in an effort to (1) reduce sugar abuse by soldiers, and (2) create war-era art capable of out-competing Soviet post art.

    "Sweet Tooth, Soldier?" was a World War Two era health program initiated and run by the United States Army in an effort to (1) reduce sugar abuse by soldiers, and (2) create war-era art capable of out-competing Soviet post art.

  • Skittles are symbolic of late-stage consumerism is a political theory advanced by the [REDACTED] and their agents within the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

    Skittles are symbolic of late-stage consumerism is a political theory advanced by the [REDACTED] and their agents within the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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