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  1. At 1.9°K, the LHC is one of the coldest places in the universe. Deep space is a balmy 2.7°K. http://tw2t.com/6Y
  2. Berkeley neural decoder, Jack Gallant, scans brains to create videos of what subjects are watching. Dreams next. http://tw2t.com/Ml
  3. Thank you everyone who has nominated @factlets as most interesting to follow. More needed: http://tw2t.com/5BW
  4. Chinese law forbids Buddhist monks from reincarnating without official permission. http://tw2t.com/ys
  5. The Cymothoa Exigua eats a fish's tongue and then replaces it. The only parasite to replace a working organ. http://tw2t.com/DD
  6. Leaves do not just fall off trees in the autumn. They are cut off by abscission cells acting like scissors. http://tw2t.com/WMa
  7. Flashing LED tattoos are possible with new biodegradable electronic circuits. Neural implants, too. http://tw2t.com/4J
  8. I feel loved. Thank you everyone who has nominated @factlets for an open web award. You may repeat daily. http://tw2t.com/5BW
  9. Distinguished physicists theorize that the $9B Large Hadron Collider may be jinxed by a particle from the future. http://tw2t.com/sEk
  10. The Peel P50, the smallest car ever, had no reverse. It had a handle to lift and turn it. Microcar slide show: http://tw2t.com/BZ
  11. Paris: Gridlock resulted when feuding mayors declared a busy street one-way from opposite directions. http://tw2t.com/cqn
  12. 20 years on, herds of deer still respect the old borders and refuse to cross the Iron Curtain. http://tw2t.com/LR
  13. Algae, sugar and cellulose are the key ingredients of totally organic synthetic jet fuel. http://tw2t.com/UV
  14. For the first time ever, more cars were sold in China than America. Economist chart: http://tw2t.com/9o1
  15. Only Mantis Shrimp eyes evolved to see circularly polarized light. Studying them will lead to higher capacity DVDs. http://tw2t.com/DXq
  16. Drinking beer and liquor while working was considered a right and privilege by the working men of the 1700s. http://tw2t.com/MA
  17. New metamaterials bend light the wrong way - making an invisibility cloak possible. http://tw2t.com/15
  18. The Japanese Yakuza Sumiyoshi-kai gang administers written tests to prospective members. http://tw2t.com/LR1
  19. The New Jersey Department of Corrections trains dogs to sniff out hidden cellphones. http://tw2t.com/ih
  20. In the Great Nut Hunt volunteers scour the forest floor for hazelnuts gnawed by the few remaining dormice in Britain. http://tw2t.com/Mo