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  1. Born this day in 1963: E. L. James, author of the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy.

  2. “The Scottish Robin Hood”: Rob Roy MacGregor was an outlaw who later became a folk hero.

  3. This day in 2009: The Kepler space observatory was launched.

  4. Born this day in 1917: Janet Collins, who was the first African American ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera.

  5. Kangaroos are the only large animals to use hopping as a means of locomotion.

  6. The composition of lava determines its behavior more than the temperature of its eruption.

  7. Can this robot predict crime before it happens? Meet Knightscope:

  8. In Hollywood accounting, a film's commercial success can be converted into a net loss.

  9. Ever heard of an attosecond? That's how long it takes for light to travel the length of two hydrogen atoms.

  10. Wikipedians are updating the article for Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of the first email system, who has died at 74.

  11. The "Thatcher effect" has nothing to do with politics, but rather describes an illusion about upside-down faces.

  12. Retweeted

    Everyone is working away at the wikipedia edit-a-thon! I'm improving entries of female cartoonists

  13. Wikipedians are updating the article for Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the United States, who has died at 94.

  14. "Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry." - author Gabriel García Márquez, born this day in 1927.

  15. Open Sesame! This phrase from One Thousand and One Nights may pertain to Babylonian magic practices–with sesame oil.

  16. This day in 1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, defected to the United States.

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