🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
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📡 On February 26, 1935...
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With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennae, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Scientists are using three strategies to restore blight‑ravaged American chestnuts: breeding naturally surviving trees, crossing with resistant Chinese chestnuts, and genetic modification. Genomic analysis shows resistance involves many genes, so long-term, carefully guided breeding and biotech will be needed.
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US data for 2025 shows solar grew 35%, surpassing hydropower, while overall electricity demand rose 2.8%. Limited gas capacity and revived LNG exports made coal more competitive, temporarily boosting coal generation despite strong momentum in solar, wind, and battery storage.
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Scientists developed a uranium‑lead dating method using fossil dinosaur eggshells, whose calcite structure preserves isotopes well. This lets researchers precisely date surrounding sedimentary rocks and nearby fossils, refining dinosaur timelines and even revealing events like ancient meteor impacts at egg‑bearing sites.
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US communities and lawmakers are increasingly pushing back against AI-driven data center expansion, citing energy costs, environmental harm, and weak local benefits. Moratoriums, tax-break rollbacks, and stricter permitting are spreading, while tech giants intensify lobbying and propose private “shadow grid” power solutions.
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Multiverse Computing compresses large language models with its CompactifAI tech, offering HyperNova 60B at half the size of OpenAI’s source model but similar performance. It’s expanding globally, pitching “sovereign AI,” and is reportedly nearing unicorn status with major new funding.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff got Java readability with only 8 lines of code.
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⭐ 3055, 🖖 208
Entire is a new developer platform that hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push, unifying your code with its context and reasoning.
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⭐ 45, 🖖 4
BVisor – An Embedded Bash Sandbox, 2ms Boot, Written in Zig
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⭐ 20597, 🖖 1665
:electron: Another Mihomo GUI.
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⭐ 2276, 🖖 513
Kubernetes-native Job Queueing
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⭐ 14602, 🖖 862
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
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