By her own admission, Supernanny Jo Frost doesn’t like flying.

Almost half of the current constellation of GPS satellites are at or approaching “single thread” operation, where a critical system failure could render a satellite inoperative.

As a 1784 letter to the editor in the Journal of Paris suggests, Ben Franklin was joking when he invented daylight saving time.

In 1990, 8% of Americans reported that they had no religious beliefs. Twenty years later, that’s 15%. And when you look at younger Americans, you see that the proportion of “nones” is reaching 22%.

Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and e.e. cummings were independently published authors.

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