A doomsday date is going viral: Friday, November 13, 2026. It comes from a real 1960 paper in Science by physicist Heinz von Foerster. Here’s what it said and why it won’t happen.
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In short McKamey Manor, in Tennessee, is an “extreme haunted house” where participants, after signing a waiver, are put through
Continua a LeggereIn short What: the Spanish galleon San José, launched in 1698, with 64 guns and three masts. When it sank:
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In short What they are: old North Korean fishing boats found drifting or washed up on Japan’s coasts, sometimes with
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Today Emma Morano celebrates 116 years and becomes the oldest woman both in Italy and in Europe. The birthday of
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In short Who: Patrick Hardison, a volunteer firefighter from Mississippi. The accident: in 2001 the roof of a burning house
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In short Who: Opeyemi Enoch, mathematics lecturer at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. What he claimed: to have proved
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In short Who: Gunnar Milton Hansen (Reykjavík, 4 March 1947 – Northeast Harbor, 7 November 2015). Why he is famous:
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In short What it was: WT1190F, a small piece of space debris orbiting the Earth since at least 2009. When
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In short Announcement: 28 September 2015, NASA. What: hydrated salts in the dark streaks (RSL) that appear in summer on
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In short When: the night of 27-28 September 2015; in Italy totality lasted from about 4:11 to 5:23 am. Why
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