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🇺🇸 Abhimanyu Mishra, the American prodigy, is the youngest person to become a chess grandmaster, achieving the title on June 30, 2021, at the age of 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days. https://t.co/vmoyaZkojJ

Formulas uses in Statistics. https://t.co/AJqROJh8jv

🇯🇵 In Japan, the Johatsu, meaning "evaporated people", choose to abandon their current lives - due to family strain, work pressure or any other reason. So-called 'night moving' companies help them disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else.

The total surface area required to fuel the earth with solar alone is only 0.3% of the earth's entire land area. https://t.co/akYOvzYHeM

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky was one of the most prolific painters in history:

• Total paintings: ~6,000
• Active career: ~60 years (1837–1899)

It’s
≈ 100 paintings/year on average
≈ 2 paintings per week
≈ 1 painting every 3–4 days https://t.co/FvUdjkyQZI

🇷🇺 This day in history: in 1990 the first McDonald's was opened in Moscow. https://t.co/2n1cZkBT5m

The Las Vegas Sphere is powered by 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs totaling 7.2 TB (7,200 GB) of GDDR6 video memory https://t.co/bBz7ndJyuQ

🇯🇵 Inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu holds 3,377 patents (e.g. the floppy disk). He finds inspiration by going on long underwater swims while holding his breath as long as he can "to starve the brain of oxygen."

Then at "0.5 seconds before death" he jots down his idea on a waterproof https://t.co/lguiIOabbn

Lego's patent to their brick design ended in 1978, which allowed multiple companies, such as Mega Bloks, to start producing their own 'clones'. https://t.co/E4WJpdrji8

Remembering when Budweiser sent out 644 personalised beers to the goalkeepers Lionel Messi had scored against, to celebrate his record 644 goals for Barcelona. https://t.co/JrZ0JDzHNi

🇹🇷 Derinkuyu is an ancient underground city in Turkey. 18 stories deep, it housed 20,000 people, protecting them from attacks for months. It had stables, schools & wineries, and was used for millennia til the 20s. It was found by a man whose chickens kept going in a crevasse & https://t.co/VhBABaADor

Biggest cities of Europe in 1854 https://t.co/BZcsA6oUhH

In 1976, 23-year-old champion finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan was finishing a run when he saw a trolleybus plunge into a lake. He dove 15 feet down into freezing, polluted water 40 times, kicking out a window and pulling 37 drowning people to safety. 20 survived, but the rescue https://t.co/aeL2GkCRM6

Abba is the name of a well known Swedish fish-canning company that formed in 1838.

When the Swedish pop group ABBA negotiated with the canners for the rights to the name, the factory gave their permission, saying "O.K., as long as you don't make us feel ashamed for what you're https://t.co/qEZjTwQIZs

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug artemisinin by reading a 1,600-year-old Chinese medical text—and realizing the herb must be extracted cold, not boiled. The treatment has saved tens of millions of lives. She tested it on herself first. https://t.co/Rki8LlMdyP

The CIA produced a prototype device that looked like a scrotum, so downed pilots could conceal a small escape radio. https://t.co/ZjdukQJkJv

Annual number of objects launched
into space

1957: 2

2025: 3,945 https://t.co/h211oDfluF

Rabies virus has a genome coding for only 5 genes, but has an almost 100% fatality rate once symptoms appear. https://t.co/uqj8JvfnXX

🇱🇦 The USA donated cement and funds to Laos for the construction of an airport for US jets, but instead Laos built a monument. https://t.co/v0tjmdnxWf

🇬🇧 -> 🇮🇳 Bus ride from London to Calcutta for £145.

The journey spanned approximately 10,000 miles (16,000 km) one way, and over 20,000 miles (32,700 km) round trip, taking about 50 days to complete each leg. https://t.co/PyxAU26VNK