Post * MeKbW — Curious Curator

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TIL the "Nobel Prize in Economics" isn't a real Nobel Prize. It was established over 70 years after the death of Alfred Nobel, is sponsored by a bank and is officially only "in memory of Alfred Nobel"

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5VDOD TIL about IIMSAM. A geopolitical entity recognized by the UN, but who's treaties all seem to be fraudulent, as well as their status in international law being practically nonexistent. One of their only confirmed treaties being with a micronation, and it seems as if this entity barely exist at all.

E18oV TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.

KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.

e9QE TIL that by 2017 smartphone manufacturers, including Apple and Nokia, will have to switch to microUSB in order to comply with an EU ruling.

Wk79o From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with biofueled planes? Algae is a tricky creature that presents a lot of challenges and misconceptions. Here’s why it’s difficult to harness—and why it could big a big payoff.