51 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Apollo 16 was launched, second to last mission to reach the Moon

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Born 156 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Wilbur Wright was aviation pioneer and inventor of the world's first successful motor-operated airplane

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#Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today) in 1912, aviator Harriet Quimby became the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. She left England in a 50-hp monoplane lent to her by Louis Blériot

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The story of the tiger that in 1997 was wounded by a poacher who also stole part of its kill: the tiger found the poacher's cabin, destroyed his belongings, waited at least half a day for him to return, then killed and ate him

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Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil

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A remarkable photo taken by Rick Geiss from Gulf Shores, Alabama in July 2016, showing a majestic cumulus congestus cloud with a microburst pouring a rain shaft over the ocean

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In 1881, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff & would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" He hired his Scottish maid, Williamina Fleming who classified tens of thousands of stars and discovered white dwarfs

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A massive, pants-like rock formation, standing tall and glorious in a pool of salt water in Canada's Arctic. The Nunavut community of Arctic Bay calls it "Qarlinngua" — pronounced "kar-ling-wah," which means "like pants" in Inuktitut

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Bumblebees change their flight patterns differently when they have to pass through a tight space based on their size, indicating that they have some idea of their own size and shape despite their simple nervous systems

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The story of Donna Griffiths, the 12-year-old girl who continued to sneeze repeatedly for 978 consecutive days. Initially sneezing every 30 s, her rate would slow to once every 5 minutes. She would have her first day without sneezing on September 16, 1983

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Chemiluminescence is the emission of energy in the form of light due to a chemical reaction. Sodium hypochlorite (bleach) solution acts as an oxidizing agent to convert luminol to an excited state

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Roman concrete has been considered as an alternative to modern concrete. It's believed that it would have a substantially smaller environmental impact in addition to being far more durable, surviving thousands of years in harsh conditions nearly unscathed: ow.ly/WLdp50yCYWc (https://ow.ly/WLdp50yCYWc)

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Can you imagine more details for a privately realized Space Shuttle launch made out of LEGO? An awesome work by Olive Seon

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The Waitomo Glowworm Cave is known for its population of Arachnocampa luminosa, a glowworm species found exclusively in New Zealand. This time-lapse shows them as they have never been seen before

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When Cordyceps attacks a host, the mycelium invades and eventually replaces the host tissue, producing a fruiting body called ascocarp with flask-shaped perithecia containing spores

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Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world. Produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and more recently Vietnam, this natural fibre is only extracted by a few skilled craftspeople across the world

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In this clip from The Curiosity Show, science educator Rob Morrison demonstrates how a self-starting siphon can move liquid from one container to another. And after you’ve seen the physics, you can make your own with some straws: buff.ly/2zEccPT (https://buff.ly/2zEccPT)

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ChatGPT-4 exam performances (vs GPT-3 and an average student)

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8 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Mars Curiosity rover captured this iconic sequence of images of a blue sunset on Mars (Sol 956)

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Not all primitive humans lived in caves and the ones who did, were alternating them with other dwellings.

Yet, there's evidence that the Panga ya Saidi cave in Kenya was occupied by Homo sapiens for 78,000 years.

Can you imagine all this time?

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