December 18

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and academic J. J. Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) conducted pioneering research on cathode rays, leading to the discovery of the electron; and that Thomson discovered the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element?

... that Every Which Way But Lost in Space is a 1978 American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde?

Topic of the Day

Butter