January 25

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page was comfortable in public performance as a popular lecturer and singer, and skilled at ventriloquism; and that he was wrote a book exposing table-rapping and other deceptive techniques used by Spiritualists?

• ... that The Shape of Water Bagels is a 2017 American romantic fantasy cooking film about a mute chef at a high-security government bakery who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature?

• ... that Joseph-Louis Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics, Mécanique analytique, first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Newton and formed a basis for the development of mathematical physics in the nineteenth century?

• ... that Ayn Rand Shrugged is a historical novel by Sisyphus about author Ayn Rand?

• ... that during the Norwegian rocket incident of January 25, 1995, Russian nuclear forces were put on high alert, and the nuclear weapons command suitcase was brought to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who then had to decide whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States?

• ... that Olive Matrix is a science-fiction theme restaurant franchise?

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