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#Linktipp Fun Facts feiert Weltpremiere in Berlin https://correctiv.org/in-eigener-sache/2026/02/24/fun-facts-feiert-weltpremiere-in-berlin/ #FunFacts

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Fun Facts feiert Weltpremiere in Berlin

Fun Facts feiert Weltpremiere in Berlin: Neues unabhängiges News-Format verbindet Humor mit konstruktivem Journalismus.

Reclus

@reclus@chaos.social · 3 days ago

Einen #Wikidata-Eintrag für #FunFacts gibt’s dann auch. Gibt es auch schon einen Mastodon-Account (auf der bekannten Mastodon-Instanz (die ja auf der Website steht)? @Sascha @marcuwekling https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138456492

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German podcast

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@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · last week

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #491: The Cox-Zucker Machine.

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The Cox-Zucker machine is an algorithm in arithmetic geometry by mathematicians David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. Their paper: "determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic surface E->S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line, " whatever that means. Also, Cox and Zucker said that as soon as they met as students at Princeton, they collaborated specifically because the paper's title would be so funny.

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@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · last week

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Mariya Delano

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)

Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three #Grammy awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)

She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).

#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts

Photo of Wendy Carlos surrounded by keyboards, electronic music equipment, and holding a Sphynx cat in her lap. Wendy is a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with an endearing and awkward smile.

Mariya Delano

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)

She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).

#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts

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@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · 2 months ago

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #479: Lake Natron.

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Lake Natron is a blood red salt lake in Tanzania that is so salty, hot and alkaline (with a pH above 12), that any animal that dies in or near it is calcified, or turned into a salt statue.

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UselessFactsBadlyDrawn

@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · 2 months ago

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Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

#HackerNews #SizeOfLife #LifeInPerspective #Visualization #DataStorytelling #FunFacts

Size of Life

From an amoeba to a blue whale

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@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · 3 months ago

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #144: The Falkland Islands Penguin Reserve.

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The world's largest nature reserve for penguins was created unintentionally.
The Falkland Islands were heavily land-mined in the Falklands War, making the beaches off-limits to humans and large predators. But penguins are not heavy enough to trigger the land mines, so the beaches became a safe haven for thousands of them. — The world's largest nature reserve for penguins was created unintentionally. The Falkland Islands were heavily land-mined in the Falklands War, making the beaches off-limits to humans and large predators. But penguins are not heavy enough to trigger the land mines, so the beaches became a safe haven for thousands of them.

UselessFactsBadlyDrawn

@uselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social · 3 months ago

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@Geri@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

#funfacts

Of all the arrests made under the Terrorism Act 2000 since it came into force 24 years ago, almost half (2,100 out of 4,322) occurred in the last four months and targeted people holding peaceful vigils.