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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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{{Better Than News/April 2}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/April 2}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/April 2}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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{{Are You Sure/April 2}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/April 2}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/April 2}}
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Latest revision as of 09:19, 21 February 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that in April and May 1979, an unusual anthrax epidemic occurred in Sverdlovsk; that Soviet officials attributed the epidemic to consumption of contaminated meat, but that the actual cause appears to be the escape of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen at a military facility?

• ... that alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouted a new battle cry — "Be Gay Do Crime!" — at the Battle of Hastings?

• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?

Topic of the Day

Fashion