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The Titanic Had a Sister Ship That Also Sank

The Britannic, Titanic’s lesser-known sister ship, met a similar fate but under different circumstances. Originally named Gigantic, it was later converted into a hospital ship during WWI. In 1916, it struck a German naval mine and sank in just 55 minutes — much faster than Titanic.

Fortunately, improved safety measures saved most passengers, though some lifeboats were pulled into the ship’s spinning propellers — killing 30 people. Interestingly, Titanic survivor Violet Jessop also survived this disaster (she survived three sunken ships in total!). Today, Britannic rests in the Aegean Sea, better preserved than Titanic due to its shallower depth.

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First 10 Elements of the Periodic Table

Note: Nitrogen is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, making up about 78% of the air we breathe.

Who Invented the Battery?

The first true battery was invented in 1800 by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, who created the voltaic pile—a stack of zinc and copper discs separated by brine-soaked material that produced a steady electric current. His surname later gave rise to the unit of electrical potential, the volt, in his honour.

Strikes

In bowling, consecutive strikes have special names:

🎳 1 Strike – Strike
🎳 2 Strikes – Double
🎳 3 Strikes – Turkey
🎳 4 Strikes – Hambone or Four-Bagger
🎳 5 Strikes – Yahtzee or Five-Bagger
🎳 6 Strikes – Six-Pack or Six-Bagger
🎳 7 Strikes – Seven-Bagger or Lucky Seven
🎳 8 Strikes – Eight-Bagger or Octo-Strikes
🎳 9 Strikes – Nine-Bagger or Golden Nine
🎳 10 Strikes – Ten-Bagger or Dime Bag
🎳 11 Strikes – Eleven-Bagger or Front Eleven
🎳 12 Strikes (Perfect Game) – 300 Game

There are additional name variations for consecutive strikes, but these are some of the most common.

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The Rise and Fall of Supreme

Supreme’s rise began as a single New York skate shop on Lafayette Street in 1994, built around a deliberately small, insider culture that later scaled into a global streetwear machine by weaponising scarcity (limited “drops”), a simple box-logo identity, and headline collaborations that turned ordinary items into status objects.

The “fall” wasn’t a collapse so much as a cooling of hype: after VF Corp bought Supreme for US$2.1B in 2020, demand softened and the scarcity-vs-growth tension became harder to manage at scale—VF later took a US$735M impairment and reported revenue pressure. By 2024, VF sold Supreme to EssilorLuxottica for US$1.5B, a very public marker of how far the streetwear boom had normalised.

Not sure I’ll use that in a sentence.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis means a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust, essentially an exaggerated, “super-long” construction referring to silicosis/pneumoconiosis.

How the word breaks down:

In plain terms: “lung disease from breathing ultrafine silica”. As for origin, it was deliberately coined in 1935 by Everett M. Smith (then president of the National Puzzlers’ League) specifically to be an ultra-long word, and it was publicised at the time in press coverage of the league’s meeting (including a New York Herald Tribune headline on 23 February 1935).

Law and Order

Law & Order has been a TV institution since it premiered on NBC on 13 September 1990, and its signature format—half police investigation, half courtroom prosecution—helped define the modern procedural. Episodes are often billed as being “ripped from the headlines,” with storylines loosely inspired by real events before diverging into fiction.

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