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Hummingbirds eat mosquitoes.

The word "asteroid" literally means "star-like", because when they were first observed, no telescope could see enough detail to know what they were, so they were basically just called "those things that look a bit like stars".

Even when eventually we figured out what they were, they were generally considered to all be spherical like tiny planets (see: The Little Prince) until the 1970s when one of the Mars probes flew close enough to have a look at one.

When a quantum wave function decoheres, it doesn't precisely collapse into a singular state. Instead, it transitions into a more restricted superposition that resonates with the environmental conditions, effectively integrating into a more intricate quantum system.

This implies that not only individual particles are in a state of superposition, but the entire universe exists in such a state. However, this superposition is so extensively constrained by interactions and entanglements that, at a macroscopic scale, the universe behaves according to classical mechanics.

ELI5: Imagine the universe is like a giant game of pretend where everything can be in many stories at once—like a cat being both awake and asleep in its adventure, or a ball that’s both rolling and still. But, as soon as we peek to see what’s happening in the game, everything picks one story to stick to where the cat is either just awake or just asleep, and the ball is either rolling or not. But, the game is so big and involves so many things that, most of the time, it seems like everything is following simple rules, like in a regular game, even though underneath, it’s still playing pretend with all the possibilities.

Earlier today I learned the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon was Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. I never knew.

Abraham Lincoln’s son was saved from getting run over when boarding a train by none other than John Wilkes Booth’s brother. The story came to light after Lincoln’s assassination. Edwin Booth was a more famous actor than John Wilkes, and was supposedly pro union as well.

Below is original newspaper article.

Traffic (the book) says most Americans merge into traffic wrong when lanes reduce (from say 3 lanes to 2 lanes for example.)

The right way is waiting until you are at the very end of the lane that's reducing. When that happens up to 60% more cars per hour get through the bottle neck in heavy traffic and accidents resulting in killed or serious injury are reduced by up to 80%.

Bottom line having multiple entry points in a queue with multiple slow down points due to the multiple entry points is the cause of the reduced performance with the way most Americans do it.

Ferrero (the company that owns Kinder, Nutella and Ferrero Rocher) controlled one quarter of the global production of hazelnuts in 2014.

(Edited to remove some unintentionally deceptive language)

Reagan made it legal to use cartoons to sell toys by deregulating marketing to children, according to the recent Wizard and the Bruiser episode