🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft detected Io’s most powerful eruption ever: a 40,000-square-mile volcanic hotspot radiating over 80 trillion watts, likely from multiple synchronized volcanoes tied to a vast subsurface magma system, reshaping Io’s surface and informing models of volcanism on other worlds.
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A European NGO study found 85% of apples contained multiple pesticide residues, some with seven chemicals and PFAS. Many included EU “most hazardous” pesticides. Groups warn about combined “cocktail” effects and advise choosing organic or peeling conventional apples.
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Tim Berners-Lee says the web has been distorted by profit, surveillance and addictive social media, but insists it can be fixed. He’s pushing Solid data “pods” to restore user control, criticises monopoly power, worries AI is escaping oversight, and urges collaborative, public-interest governance.
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Astronomers found HD 137010 b, an Earth-size planet 146 light-years away, orbiting a sun-like star every 355 days. It may sit in the habitable zone but could be as cold as -70C. Detected via Kepler K2 data, it’s still a candidate exoplanet.
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Apple’s new opt-in feature makes iPhones/iPads share only rough, neighborhood-level location with certain carriers, limiting precise tracking by police, spies, and hackers, while keeping exact GPS for apps and emergencies. It’s supported on select new models and a few global networks.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean spent some 20% time on an AI project. That produced Urs Hoelzle.
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⭐ 2992, 🖖 265
A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland.
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⭐ 2531, 🖖 259
AnyCrawl 🚀: A Node.js/TypeScript crawler that turns websites into LLM-ready data and extracts structured SERP results from Google/Bing/Baidu/etc. Native multi-threading for bulk processing.
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⭐ 2331, 🖖 164
Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.
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⭐ 41, 🖖 5
Emulator2000 – Seiko Digital Watch Emulator
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⭐ 6141, 🖖 426
Memory for 24/7 proactive agents like moltbot (clawdbot).
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