Men’s shirts usually button on the right side, while women’s shirts button on the left. One explanation is that historically men often dressed themselves, while women were often dressed by attendants. Other theories include military clothing, breastfeeding, horseback riding, and Napoleon, but these have less evidence.🧥🥼🪡

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Abraham Lincoln was known as a strong wrestler in his early years in New Salem, Illinois. He took part in local wrestling matches and built a reputation for strength and fair competition in frontier-style wrestling. It's said he only lost one match out of 300..
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The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where many people remember something differently from reality.

The term was created in 2009 after people falsely remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison during the 1980s. In reality, he was released in 1990 and died in 2013. Common examples include misremembered movie quotes, logos, and brand names. Scientists connect the Mandela Effect to false memories and how the brain processes information.
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An RF mixer is a device that multiplies two signals together, producing new signals at both the sum and difference of their frequencies. This simple idea is the foundation of superheterodyne radios, which have been the dominant radio design for over a century. The radio receives an incoming signal, mixes it with a second internally-generated frequency, and the result is a new, easier-to-handle frequency called the Intermediate Frequency (IF), which the rest of the radio then processes. In practice, mixers are often built using diodes, but the core concept is straightforward: multiply two signals, get new frequencies out.
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Tiny Irukandji jellyfish are about 1 cm across and almost transparent.
They live mainly in northern Australian waters but have also been reported in other tropical seas. The sting may feel mild at first or go unnoticed. Within 5–120 minutes, symptoms gradually appear and intensify, including severe headache, back and muscle pain, chest and abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, sweating, anxiety, a feeling of impending doom, fast heart rate, and high blood pressure. In severe cases, pulmonary edema may occur. Symptoms usually improve in 4–30 hours but may take up to two weeks to fully resolve.
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Sally Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) became the first American woman and second woman from Earth in space on June 18, 1983.🚀 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7.
She was a 32 year old physicist selected by NASA in 1978; she flew again in 1984 on STS-41G and spent over 343 hours in orbit.
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The platypus is a monotreme native to eastern Australia and Tasmania. It lays eggs but has a unique mix of features: a duck-like bill, webbed feet, a beaver-like tail, and dense waterproof fur. Platypuses are excellent swimmers and use electroreception in their bills to detect prey underwater. They’re one of the few venomous mammals—the males have venomous spurs on their hind legs.
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“Blue blood” means someone from a noble or royal family. The term comes from Spanish “sangre azul” in the 13th century. It described pale-skinned Spanish nobles whose veins looked blue. Today, it still refers to aristocratic or elite families.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, in present-day Belgium. Napoleon’s French army was defeated by Coalition forces led by the Duke of Wellington and Prussian Field Marshal Blücher.
Waterloo was Napoleon’s last battle.
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Rhydon was the first Pokémon ever designed. Its design was inspired by dinosaurs, with horns, a long tail, and a big body. Even though it was created first, Rhydon is #112 in the Pokédex.
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Pablo Escobar surrendered to Colombian authorities after Colombia approved a ban on extraditing its citizens on June 19, 1991. He turned himself in with the help of a priest who acted as an intermediary. He was taken to a specially prepared prison near Medellín. The surrender followed a government policy offering reduced sentences and protection from extradition for traffickers who surrendered and confessed to crimes.
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In Mauritania, slavery still exists even though it is illegal. Many people are born into slavery and cannot leave. They work without pay and face harsh treatment. Activists and groups are trying to stop slavery and rescue those who are already trapped or even born as slaves. As far as known, only one slave "owner" has been sentenced, to 6 months in jail.

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Axolotls can regenerate entire limbs, parts of their heart, and even parts of their brain. They stay in their larval form their whole lives, keeping their feathery external gills that fan water to breathe, which gives them a permanently “smiling” and cute appearance. They are usually pink, white, or gray, and have tiny, lidless eyes that make them look like little underwater aliens. Axolotls are gentle, slow-moving, and mostly eat small fish, worms, and insects.

Less fun part: Their extreme regenerative abilities make them a favorite for scientific research.

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Their unusual appearance makes them one of the most beloved amphibians in the world.

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AI data centers use millions of liters of water each day to stay cool. Servers get very hot while running complex computations. Many centers use water-based cooling like evaporative or liquid cooling. Water is also used to make electricity and computer chips. In some areas, this can put serious pressure on local water supplies.
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