☀️ Awesome Things by John Suder, Volume 176
Another week of internet awesomeness. Awesome Things is read across 40 US states and 34 countries.
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On to this week’s Awesome Things:
500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media. Guess how that went.
Why your balsamic vinegar is likely fake
Coin toss not so random after all, says groundbreaking study
Parrot gets award for warning about choking tot
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A 5th grader tossed a message in a bottle off Cape Cod in 1997. Someone in France just found it.
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth
And the Sun is no match for its power.
15 Bizarre Food and Restaurant Facts
Why In-N-Out has barely changed its business for 75 years — not even its fries
Photographing 80s New York, through the lens of a British student
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US Marine who moved to Australian cattle ranch learns local slang, assimilates
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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