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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

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Are You Sure

• ... that Andreijah "Dre" Pahich played Talby in director John Carpenter's film Big Trouble in Little Dark Star, but Carpenter himself provided the voice of Talby?

• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book Geometria rotundi?

• ... that engineer and inventor Wilhelm Bauer built several hand-powered submarines?

• ... that both the United States Marine Corps and the Spartan Ephors gave their approval to Stanley Kubrick and Zach Snyder's film Full Metal 300?

• ... that physicist Hendrik Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."?

• ... that Bezos Money is not accepted anywhere in Euclidean space, effectively making it available only to employees of transdimensional corporations?

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