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The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.

Today I learned that there is a promotion on Instagram that offers to undergo free testing every 24h https

Video calls happened in the 1920s when the boss of telecoms giant AT&T spoke to former US president Herbert Hoover using a TV signal and phone line. (Learnt through reading a bbc article about how well Blade Runner predicted 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50247479 )

Whale fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains.

In Bolivia, llama droppings are used to purify water.

I talked to my grandmother on the phone, she may have Mexican food for Christmas.

On average, soccer players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single match.

I've learned scientists have developed a much more improved battery for solar power cells..

The average person has 1,825 dreams per year.

Lara Croft from Tomb Raider was originally going to be called Laura, but the British designers of the game thought Americans were stupid and would not pronounce the name Laura properly, so they changed it to Lara.

Many Americans mispronounce Lara's name as Laura, however, so maybe...

I learned that an academic liberal type likes Dean Martin.

Nobody needs to know you've had a bad day, so keep it to yourself.

Windex kills ants

Google owns many domains to cover mistypes such as: Gooogle, Gogle, Googel, and even 466453.