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A fact that'll make you feel old! #nostalgia #1990s

The cow is the national animal of Nepal. 🇳🇵

Nancy Pelosi met John F. Kennedy!

We've almost completed 40% of 2026!

L. Frank Baum was born on this day, 170 years ago!

Monaco is the smallest country ever to win Eurovision! #Eurovision

Cate Blanchett has been nominated for a total of 8 acting Oscars! (She's won twice)

Australia has made it to the Eurovision Grand Final for the first time since 2023! #Eurovision

Today: Mark Zuckerberg turns 42 and George Lucas turns 82!

@krassenstein It would have been Australia's tallest building!

BREAKING: Australia has CANCELLED the 91-story Trump Tower they planned to build. The local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic". “Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else, the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia,” David Young, CEO of Altus Property Group, told CNN in a statement.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping's birthdays are on consecutive days! (June 14th and June 15th)

Cirie Fields has competed on "Survivor" 6 times! #Survivor #Survivor50

2025 marked 24 years since the first episode of "24" aired!

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Diane Warren has now been nominated for 17 Academy Awards for Best Original Song without winning any of them. #oscars

That's a university! (Moscow State University)

Robert Pattinson turns 40 today!

Hantaviruses are spread by rodents.

There's such a thing as drive-in church!

@_HistoryNerd Arthur C. Clarke lived to see the year 2001.

Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future of computing in 1974, with his young son Jonathan beside him: "I brought along my son Jonathan who in the year 2001 will be the same age as I am now. Maybe he will be better adjusted to this kind of world that you're trying to portray." Clarke then paints a picture of what daily life will look like when Jonathan grows up: "The big difference when he grows up is that he will have in his own house not a computer as big as this, but at least a console through which he can talk to his friendly local computer and get all the information he needs for his everyday life: his bank statements, his theater reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in a complex modern society." He describes the setup with remarkable precision: "This will be in a compact form in his own house. He'll have a television screen like these here and a keyboard, and he'll talk to the computer, get information from it, and he'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone." But the interviewer raises a concern that still resonates today: "I wonder though, what sort of a life would it be like in social terms? I mean, if our whole life is built around the computer, that we become a computer-dependent society and computer-independent individuals in some ways?" Clarke acknowledges the tension but sees a profound upside, one that anticipates remote work decades before it became reality: "They'll also enrich our society because it'll make it possible for us to live really anywhere we like. Any businessman executive could live almost anywhere on Earth and still do his business through a device like this." He closes with a vision that has quietly come true for millions: "This is a wonderful thing. It means we won't have to be stuck in cities. We'd be better off living out in the country or wherever we please and still carry on complete interaction with human beings as well as with other computers." Half a century later, Clarke's prediction reads less like science fiction and more like a description of an ordinary Tuesday. Banking, bookings, information at our fingertips, working from anywhere, all taken as much for granted as the telephone, exactly as he said.

There are over 40 Emmys between the 5 of them!