Curiosities
October 2026
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Curiosities
A steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1855 and shipped to India to haul mail trains was still pulling passenger trips out of Delhi more than 150 years later, earning a world record as the oldest steam engine in regular service
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A 2019 claim that Britain could cut 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year if everyone sent one fewer “thank you” email went around the world, but the real saving barely registers, because your laptop, the network and the servers keep running whether you hit send or not
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Galileo’s main antenna jammed on its way to Jupiter, leaving a small antenna that could manage about 10 bits per second instead of 134,400, so NASA rewrote its software and rebuilt how Earth listened
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NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops go on sale from $2,399, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU and a Grace CPU on one superchip.
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How to invite someone without a WhatsApp account to a WhatsApp call by creating a call link in the Calls tab.
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A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the pillar beside the windshield, covered in a fabric that shows the picture only to the driver, and won $25,000 for making the blind spot vanish while passengers saw plain black cloth
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