"George W. Bush cite les noms de Gog et Magog à Jacques Chirac, « alors qu'il tentait de convaincre la France d'entrer en guerre à ses côtés en Irak », en 2003."
Ah oué quand même.
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_et_Magog#cite_ref-30

"The Euphonia was a talking machine created in the early to mid-nineteenth century by the Austrian inventor Joseph Faber (...)
Faber's "Fabulous Talking Machine" was constructed of several different mechanisms and instruments: a piano, a bellows, and a mechanical replica of the human throat and vocal organs."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonia_(device) #histtech #histsci

"Saturated Clerici solution is more dense than spinel, garnet, diamond, and corundum."
oO'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerici_solution #wikifact

#wikifact "Magic Johnson claims that he invented the high five."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five

"According to a story recorded in the Book of Acts 14:8–18, the apostle Paul and his companion Barnabas healed a crippled man in the street in the town of Lystra in Asia Minor, during Paul's second missionary journey.
The townsfolk immediately mistook them for the Greek gods Hermes and Zeus respectively and attempted to offer sacrifices to them"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_considered_deities#cite_ref-53
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#TIL "Puff adders have a form of olfactory crypsis, which has been shown to make detecting them difficult for trained dogs and meerkats, both scent-based predators."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_adder#Description

One of these things is not like the others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_spiral
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