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If you listen to a low-quality recording of a scientist presenting their work, you are less likely to find the scientist competent and their research interesting than if you’d heard a high-quality recording of the same presentation.

If you’re looking for Calico Critters anywhere outside the U.S. or Canada, you won’t get very far. In the rest of the world, the figures are known as Sylvanian Families.⁠ ⁠ The term “Sylvanian” is derived from the English word 'sylvan,' an adjective used to describe things associated with the forest. Members of Sylvanian Families, appropriately, live in the “idyllic land of Sylvania,” an imaginary woods. In North America, meanwhile, the Critters call Calico Village home.

These huge machines contribute to safer, more stable buildings for everyone. 😯 📽️ BodemBouw B.V. https://t.co/3GB59cSB2k

The minesweeping device was built using cheap materials that are easily replaceable. 🧐 https://t.co/v46J4JcZTU

The excrement is converted into a digital currency. 💵 https://t.co/FaPSWNuKnJ

This fascinating deep dive into the history of the Kola Superdeep Borehole is not as boring as you might think. 😯 https://t.co/RDeek54YCc

Do these storms on Mercury produce aurora displays as they do on Earth? 🧐 https://t.co/3QAkyN0amA

Happy Easter! Here are some movie easter eggs for you🎬🥚 #easter #eastereggs #movies #8fact

As of 2021, the three most popular flag emoji are the rainbow flag (🏳️‍🌈), the U.S. flag (🇺🇸), and the red flag (🚩).

Benjamin Franklin, one of the leading figures of early American history, died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1790. Born into a family of modest means, he had little formal education. He went on to start a successful printing business in Philadelphia and was deeply active in the city. During the American Revolution, he served in the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. To read more about Benjamin Franklin, visit the link in our bio.

This bio-toilet uses an anaerobic system to decompose waste and transform it into renewable biogas for cooking. 🚽 📽️ HomeBiogas https://t.co/5iHqpN5HWf

This is serious! Daily fun facts wtffunfacts

Here’s the surprisingly laborious process of replacing a storm drain in a residential area. 🍃 📽️ Soleno inc. https://t.co/Z473H4uO7K

According to one interpretation, the line ‘That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet’ from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ might have been a joke about a competitor of Shakespeare’s Globe called the Rose Theatre that was notorious for its clogged sewage system.

Grab your baskets! Here are a few “Easter eggs” for you to consider today. Banded jawfish dads-to-be carry eggs in their mouth.🥚👄🥚 This behavior—which helps protect offspring from predators—is known as mouthbrooding, and it’s common across the jawfish species. To attract females, males do a “dance” that involves a series of sweeping movements and fin-flashing. And the crescendo of this courtship ritual? Males open their mouths as wide as possible to boast their mouthbrooding potential! Photo: Kevin Bryant, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #nature #NaturalHistory #OceanLife #EasterEggs #eggs #fish #BandedJawFish #MarineBiology #easter