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[[File:Baby Sarlacc 1.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Baby Sarlaac|Baby Sarlaac is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, popular as a novelty pet. The sarlaac catches its prey with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the sarlaac's tentacles, which is triggered by tiny hairs (called "trigger hairs" or "sensitive hairs") on their inner surfaces. Adult sarlaacs feed mainly upon condemned criminals and unlucky bounty hunters, while juvenile sarlaacs feed upon insects, rodents, and small hominids such as immature ewoks.]]
• ... that astronomer and mathematician '''[[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]]''' (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?


• ... that '''[[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Norton Lorenz]]''' was a pioneer of chaos theory, and that Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect?
• ... that mathematician '''[[Vera Faddeeva (nonfiction)|Vera Faddeeva]]''' (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her ''Computational Methods of Linear Algebra'' (1950) was widely acclaimed?


• ... that '''[[Baby Sarlaac]]''' is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, and that the sarlaac is currently under Extraterrestrial Species Act review by the U.S. Space & Alien Life Service due to the rapid decline of the sarlaac population in its native range?
• ... that physicist '''[[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]]''' (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?
 
• ... that '''''[[Titanic Maru]]''''' is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?

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• ... that astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) invented a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars?

• ... that mathematician Vera Faddeeva (20 September 1906 - 15 April 1983) pioneered linear algebra; and that her Computational Methods of Linear Algebra (1950) was widely acclaimed?

• ... that physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. (18 November 1831 – 15 April 1911) researched galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; and that Bosscha was one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire?

• ... that Titanic Maru is an international shipping logistics horror film narrated by Cthulhu?

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