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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did you know? Sound waves bend around most objects because the wavelength (distance between peaks) is longer. However, most objects block light waves because the wavelength is much shorter. This lets us hear through barriers (like walls) but not see through them. #fact #science #physics #waves

Waves passing through a large gap, bent a little but mostly going straight.

Waves passing through a small (wavelength-size) gap, spreading out in all forward directions.

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did you know? "Goodbye" was originally "God be with ye [you]", shortened to "Godbwye". This is reflected in #languages like - Spanish "adiós" (a + Dios) - French "adieu" (a + Dieu) - Portuguese "adeus" (a + Deus) - Italian "addio" (a + Dio) from Latin "ad Deum" (to God). #fact #words #history

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did you know? Wordle wasn't always a word-guessing game. It used to be a word cloud generator (which I played with in elementary school): web.archive.org/web/20110807... #fact #websites #history #nostalgia

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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know? Even though electric charges (monopoles) are everywhere, magnetic monopoles have never been found. Splitting a magnet in half instead creates two smaller magnets, each having both a north pole and a south pole. #fact #science #magnets #physics

Bar magnet cut in half, producing two smaller magnets, each with both a north pole and a south pole.

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know? A person who is at least 100 years old is a centenarian. #fact #age #vocabulary #words

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know? Modern transistors in computing devices are so small that billions can fit on a fingernail-sized chip. Putting thousands of transistors side by side gives the average width of a human hair (70-100 micrometers, or millionths of a meter). #fact #technology #science #computers

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did you know? The letter Y is called "Greek i" in some languages, such as "i griega" in Spanish, "i grec" in French, and "i graeca" in Latin. This is because it comes from the capital Greek letter upsilon/ypsilon (Υ). #fact #languages #history #letters

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you know? "Aldi" is short for "Albrecht Diskont," the second word being German for "discount." It got its name from brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht. #fact #stores #naming #history

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This @desmos.com graph shows the slope field for first-order differential equations! Also has two versions of Euler's method: www.desmos.com/calculator/5... #math #interactive #calculus #intuitive #education

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Slope Fields

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did you know? If you try to visualize every digit of Graham's number (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%...), your brain would hold so much information in a tiny space that it would collapse into a black hole. 🕳️ #fact #math #numbers #science

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Graham's number - Wikipedia

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know? Humans can go 4-8 weeks without food. However, the body starts using up stored fat, sugar, protein, etc. for energy. So, stay well fed! 🍞🍌 (Without water, the survival time drops to 3-7 days.) #fact #food #nutrition #eating

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know? Starfish have no brains, which is why Patrick Star from "SpongeBob SquarePants" is dumb (despite having a brain himself). #fact #cartoons #biology #science

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did you know? Although 299,792,458 m/s (meters per second) is called the speed of light, it applies to electromagnetic waves, gravity waves, and any particle without mass. Plus, light slows down when entering different materials (air, water, diamonds, etc.). #fact #science #physics

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy first day of fall (aka autumn, or spring if you're in the Southern Hemisphere)! Day and night will be of equal length, marking another equinox. 🍂 #fact #seasons #astronomy #time

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you know? A bit (binary digit) is a 0 or 1, and eight of them make a byte. Furthermore, 1,000 bytes equal one kilobyte (KB), while 1,024 of them is a kibibyte (KiB). This can be extended to megabyte/mebibyte (MB/MiB), gigabyte/gibibyte (GB/GiB), etc. #fact #computers #technology #storage

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did you know? "Tyrannosaurus rex" is the creature's scientific and popular name, where "rex" is Latin for "king" (and Tyrannosaurus literally means "tyrant lizard"). 🦖 #fact #dinosaur #naming

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did you know? Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19) was created by John Baur and Mark Summers in 1995 during a racquetball game, when one of them said "Aaarrr!" in pain. This happened on June 6, but they picked Summers' ex-wife's birthday, which he could easily remember. #fact #holiday #history ☠️🦜

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did you know? If 49 people who have $10,000 each are in a room with a billionaire, the average amount is over $20 million (the Billionaire Effect). This shows how outliers pull the average, or mean, toward them. However, the median and mode stay at $10,000. #fact #math #statistics #numbers

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you know? The Year 2000 problem (Y2K) happened because computers used the year's last two digits to save memory. Thus, 2000 was displayed as 1900. For this reason, it was also called the millennium bug. #fact #technology #errors #history Read more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_20...

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Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you know? "Antidisestablishmentarianism" (28 letters) isn't in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. Instead, the longest word there is "acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene" (29 letters). More information here: www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/no-a... #fact #language #words #dictionary

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No, Antidisestablishmentarianism Is Not in the Dictionary

But we'll tell you the real 'longest word'

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did you know? The first ever Morse code message is "What hath God wrought?" (.-- .... .- - / .... .- - .... / --. --- -.. / .-- .-. --- ..- --. .... - ..--..), sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844. #fact #technology #communication #history

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you know? Musical notes are sound wave frequencies (e.g., A4 is 440 Hz, where a hertz (Hz) is a vibration per second). Moving up/down one octave doubles/halves the frequency. For example, A3 is 220 Hz and A5 is 880 Hz. Listen here: szynalski.com/tone-generator #fact #music #science #physics

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Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did you know? Dmitri Mendeleev, founder of the periodic table, was one vote away from winning a Nobel Prize in 1906 (Svante Arrhenius opposed it due to a grudge against Mendeleev). The committee also praised recent work instead of old discoveries. #fact #awards #science #chemistry

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did you know? "Gesundheit," an alternative to "bless you" for sneezing, is German for "health" (from gesund "healthy" + -heit "-hood"). It's used to avoid religious wording. #fact #language #words

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's been 25 years since 9/11 happened. #NeverForget those who lost their lives to this tragedy.🙏 #PatriotDay

Twin Tower attacks on September 11, 2001.

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Did you know? We use 100% of our brains every day, even when asleep, as confirmed by PET and fMRI scans. 🧠 #fact #science #medicine #imaging

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did you know? Each square of a digital picture is called a pixel (short for "picture element"). Zooming in on a bitmap image (PNG, JPEG, etc.) reveals these squares, while vector images (like SVG files) stay smooth when enlarged, making them resolution-independent. #fact #computers #technology

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy #LaborDay! Since it's a holiday, I'll take a short break from posting facts.

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Did you know? Hippasus, a student of Pythagoras, proved the square root of 2 is irrational (presumably with geometry). However, Pythagoras' followers doubted that irrational numbers exist, and legend says Hippasus was drowned at sea as a punishment from the gods. #fact #math #numbers #history

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Did you know? Hamburgers aren't named after ham, but the German city of Hamburg. 🍔 #fact #food #naming #history

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Did you know? Super Mario 64 isn't purely 3D. Some objects, like trees, coins, and the round part of Bob-ombs, are 2D images that always face the camera. This is called billboarding, which was used in early 3D games to save resources. #fact #gaming #technology youtube.com/shorts/URCTvE_wC7I

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SM64's Graphics are a Trick!

YouTube video by pannenkoek2012

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did you know? A 0% probability isn't always impossible. For example, the chance of picking 5.37 from the real numbers 0 to 10 is 0%, as there are infinitely many possibilities. Likewise, a 100% chance isn't always guaranteed (e.g., not choosing 5.37 from the 0-10 range). #fact #math #probability

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Did you know? English physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) had very little formal education. Despite this, he invented the electric generator, electric motor, electric transformer, rubber balloon, electrolysis, etc. without mathematical formulas. #fact #science #physics #creations

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Did you know? Entropy and disorder are not the same. For example, a messy room and its clean version have the same entropy (number of possible states) but different amounts of order. #fact #science #physics #thermodynamics

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Did you know? Mushrooms aren't fruits or vegetables, since they're fungi (singular "fungus") instead of plants. However, they're used as vegetables in cooking and thus called "culinary vegetables," just like tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants (which are botanically fruits). 🍄 #fact #food #category

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Did you know? Parrots don't have vocal cords. Instead, they copy sounds with the syrinx, a Y-shaped organ deep in the chest (near the lungs) that helps them control airflow, and a unique brain structure made for vocal learning. 🦜 #fact #birds #anatomy #sounds

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Did you know? A standard deck of cards has 52 * 51 * ... * 3 * 2 = 8.066 * 10^67 (80.66 unvigintillion) possible arrangements. This is written symbolically as 52! (52 factorial). Shuffle the deck and you'll likely be the first person with that order. #fact #math #numbers #cards

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did you know? Chocolate was used as currency in ancient Mesoamerica by the Maya and Aztecs, in the form of cacao beans. It was also considered a gift from the gods. 🍫 #fact #history #trading

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Did you know? In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald because it's easier to pronounce and Japanese lacks a clear R sound. It also avoids confusion with Ranald MacDonald, the first native English speaker who taught English in Japan. #fact #restaurant #mascot #naming

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Did you know? The bottom part of a rolling object (that's touching a surface) doesn't move -- it stays in the same place. This is because the forward speed due to movement is canceled out by the backward speed due to rotation. #fact #physics #science www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_Z...

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Art created from Physics of Rolling Motion

YouTube video by Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton. Your contributions will be remembered for the ages. 🙏🪦

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Did you know? In the '90s sitcom "Hey Arnold!", Arnold's last name is Shortman, which is what his grandpa often calls him. #fact #naming #characters #cartoon

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did you know? All vowels in English (and the Latin script) are odd-numbered: - A is the 1st letter, - E is the 5th, - I is the 9th, - O is the 15th, and - U is the 21st. Including Y also works, as it's the 25th letter. #fact #alphabet #numbers

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Did you know? Most people aren't introverts or extroverts. Studies have shown that 2/3 of the population are ambiverts, which is a mix of both. #fact #personality #psychology

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A piece of personal history: My high school physics teacher once told me, "When you are at the top of your class, you literally have a lot of potential." #science #motivation #inspiration

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Did you know? You can't actually touch anything, since the electrons in your body's atoms repel the electrons in another surface's atoms. That means when you sit or stand, you're hovering a tiny amount above the ground. (MC Hammer was right after all!) #fact #science #physics

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did you know? A full moon can happen twice a month, the second of which is a blue moon. This occurs about every 32 months, leading to the idiom "once in a blue moon." 🌝 #fact #astronomy #language #science

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did you know? On October 4, 1582, the Julian calendar was 11 days behind Earth's orbit around the Sun. Thus, the Gregorian calendar (our current one) was introduced, changing how often leap years occur and making the next day October 15. #fact #history #time

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One Of A Nice Kind @1ofanicekind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Did you know? Geniuses ask more questions than people with low intelligence, due to high curiosity and constant learning (e.g., digging into basic ideas). #fact #psychology #intelligence #science

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