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Recent facts

• The Steam Turbine · May 22, 12:37am
  The Parsons steam turbine design uses a series of progressively larger blade stages because steam expands as it cools, requiring increased rotor diameter to maintain efficiency through the turbine's length.
• Cathole Digging in the Wilderness · May 22, 12:37am
  Thirty days represents the typical timeframe for pathogenic viruses like norovirus to become inactivated in cathole soil under standard temperature and moisture conditions.
• The Escalator · May 22, 12:37am
  Escalator designers must account for the Coriolis effect on ultra-long installations exceeding 100 meters, as Earth's rotation can cause measurable lateral drift in step alignment over extended vertical distances.
• The International (Dota 2) · May 22, 12:37am
  Arteezy and s4 won The International 2011 as members of Na'Vi, earning $1 million combined in a tournament that featured only 16 teams competing in Shanghai.
• The AMC Javelin · May 22, 12:37am
  Javelin sales peaked in 1969 with 40,675 units sold, establishing AMC's pony car as a genuine threat to Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro market dominance.
• The West African Monsoon · May 22, 12:37am
  Crop failures across the Sahel increased dramatically when the West African Monsoon weakened between 1968 and 1973, contributing to a severe drought that killed approximately 100,000 people.
• The Volkswagen Beetle · May 22, 12:37am
  Volkswagen Beetle owners could purchase replacement parts costing less than 5 percent of the vehicle's original price, making it the most economical car to maintain throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
• Shellfish Foraging · May 22, 12:37am
  Twenty-eight states along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts require shellfish foragers to obtain harvest permits before collecting any bivalves or gastropods from public waters.
• The Iceland Banking Crisis · May 22, 12:36am
  Iceland's three largest banks had borrowed approximately 50 billion US dollars from international markets by 2008, creating a debt burden roughly 345 percent of the nation's annual GDP.
• NetHack · May 22, 12:36am
  Identifying NetHack's most dangerous threat, the Watcher in the Waters inhabits the Sunless Sea and can instantly kill players through a devastating gaze attack.