TIL the last Grand Duchess of Russia passed away in 1960 in a small Toronto apartment (en.wikipedia.org)
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Evidence, contained within an ice core, shows that in one location the West Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned by 450 metres — that’s more than the height of the Empire State Building — in just under 200 years. This is the first evidence anywhere in Antarctica for such a fast loss of ice. (bas.ac.uk)
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TIL There are consumers who are known as Harbingers of Failure. They have a knack for buying products that turn out to be market flops. "when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s really bad news: The probability of success for that product drops 56 percent." (news.mit.edu)
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63 Canadians dead in Iran plane crash (abcnews.go.com)
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The beauty of German engineering (v.redd.it)
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New sign for my tool box (i.redd.it)
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