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#QuizOfTheDay: The #TajMahal was designated as a #UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 for being "the jewel of Muslim art in India".

Which #Emperor of India built the Taj Mahal?

A. Akbar
B. Shah Jahan
C. Jahangir
D. Aurangzeb

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January 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM

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#PuzzleOfTheDay:

3^x . 5^y = 75
3^y . 5^x = 45

What is the value of x+y

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January 13, 2026 at 8:35 AM

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Why Are We Not #Talking About #Chemicals? : Medium

#Archaeologists Found a #SmokingGun Behind the End of the #MayaKingdom’s Reign : Pop Mech

#Reading Is a #Vice : Misc

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January 13, 2026 at 6:35 AM

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#OnThisDay #NationalGeographic Society was founded (1888).

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was signed (1993).

First public #Radio broadcasting took place in New York City (1910).

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January 13, 2026 at 4:18 AM

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#QuizOfTheDay: In 1995, astronomers discovered the first #Exoplanet, or planet outside our #SolarSystem orbiting a main-sequence star.

What is the name of that Exoplanet?

A. 51 Pegasi / Helvetios
B. PSR B1257+12A
C. Gliese 876 B
D. 51 Pegasi b / Dimidium

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January 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM

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#Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, featuring over 400 active volcanoes that spew sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles into space.

This intense geological activity is powered by "tidal heating".

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January 12, 2026 at 9:39 AM

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#PhotoOfTheDay: #Jupiter’s #Volcanic Moon #Io

During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io in Dec 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s volcanic surface.

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January 12, 2026 at 9:37 AM

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#PuzzleOfTheDay: If,

4^x - 4^y = 48, and
2^(x+y) = 32,

What is x.y ?

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January 12, 2026 at 8:27 AM

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#ArtificialIntelligence Needs a #Brain #Transplant to Avoid Imminent #Collapse : Medium

6 ways to #Sneak ‘micro-#Creativity’ into your #Workday in the new year : Misc

Why #Academics should do more #Consulting — and how to make it work : Nature

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January 12, 2026 at 6:22 AM

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#OnThisDay Happy Birthday Swiss #Astrophysicist Michel Mayor (1942). He discovered 51 Pegasi b, first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star.

Birth Anniversary of "Smokin' Joe" Joe Frazier (1944) - undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973.

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January 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM

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#QuizOfTheDay: The Adventures of #Tintin is a series of 24 albums created by a famous Belgian cartoonist who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

What was the real name of Hergé?

A. Albert Uderzo
B. René Goscinny
C. Jean-Yves Ferri
D. Georges Remi

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January 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM

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#PhotoOfTheDay: The moon and the arc of the #MilkyWay

ESO Photo Ambassador Stéphane Guisard captured this astounding panorama from the site of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in the Chilean Andes.

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January 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM

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#PuzzleOfTheDay: If,

x/2 = y/3 = z/4, and
x + y + z = 18,

x.y.z = ?

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January 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM

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Understanding #Quantum #Fingerprints : Medium

A #Neuroscientist’s #Advice on #NewYear’s #Resolutions : Time

Can #Ultraprocessed #Foods Be #Addictive? A #Neuroscientist Weighs In : Sci Am

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January 10, 2026 at 6:27 AM

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#OnThisDay The first General Assembly of the United Nations opened in London (1946).

Happy Birthday Donald Knuth (1938).

Birth Anniversary of #Boxer George Foreman (1949) - a two-time world #Heavyweight #Champion.

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January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM

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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Stephen Hawking (1942) - English #Cosmologist, and author.

Birth Anniv of Elvis Presley (1935). He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll".

Birth Anniv of British #Naturalist and #Explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823).

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January 8, 2026 at 5:04 AM

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#QuizOfTheDay: The Ballon d'Or is one of the most prestigious individual awards a player can win in football.

Who is the youngest player to win the Ballon d'Or?

A. Ronaldo Nazario
B. Michael Owen
C. Lionel Messi
D. Pele

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January 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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#PhotoOfTheDay: Reshaping the Forests Around #Kisangani

The #Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest tropical #Rainforest, surpassed only by the #Amazon.

However, the basin lost more than 8 percent of its rainforest since 1990.

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January 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM

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#PuzzleOfTheDay: Can you solve this?

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January 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM

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The state of the #Internet: #2026 edition : Medium

#Human-#Plant #Hybrid #Cells reveal truth about dark #DNA in our #Genome : New Sci

What Actually Is #Fire? The #Answer Is Stranger Than You'd #Think : Misc

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January 7, 2026 at 6:24 AM

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#OnThisDay Galileo Galilei discovered the first three moons of #Jupiter (1610).

Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system (1954) took place.

Happy Birthday Lewis Hamilton (1985), #Actor Nicolas Cage (1964).

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January 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM

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#QuizOfTheDay: El Castillo, known as the Temple of Kukulcán, is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza - one of the largest Maya cities.

In which country is this Pyramid located?

A. Egypt
B. Peru
C. Mexico
D. Guatemala

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January 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM

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#PhotoOfTheDay: #Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks in July 2025. The robotic scientist is exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain.

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