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Trevi Fountain, Mona Lisa, Robotic Fish, SQL Nulls
We created a fake delivery company
Designing a fake delivery company seemed to be the most logical, straightforward way of contacting a person. Hence, ''Future Delivers'' was born. The company's concept is that it delivers parcels from the future. This allows your future self in the year 2064 to send a parcel to your past self in the year 2024, filled with good advice, artefacts from the future, and warnings to hopefully improve your life ahead.
How to disguise your quarterback as your punter
The trick is the punter wasn’t a punter. The usual punter, John Henderson, wears #19. It’s somewhere-down-the-depth chart quarterback Baron May, wearing #18. 18 pretty much looks like 19, especially on a football uniform with block numbering.
Did Picasso steal the Mona Lisa?
Their emotional evidence and histrionic testimonies convinced Judge Henri Drioux that both men were innocent, and he dismissed the case only giving them a warning.
So, to answer the question, no, Pablo Picasso did not steal the Mona Lisa.
China aquariums opt for robotic whales to cut costs, leaving visitors feeling deceived
While some visitors at Xiaomeisha Sea World expressed feelings of being “cheated” and even requested refunds, others praised the aquariums for their evolving commitment to animal protection, stating it was acceptable as long as consumers were informed about the robotic shark in advance.
Fishing Coins From Trevi Fountain and Putting Wet Money to Work
Because there isn’t a market for coin-drying machines, Caritas tasked a company that makes machines to dry cutlery with converting one for its purposes. The coins are dried and then passed through a machine that separates euro coins from everything else. It’s so sophisticated that it even detected a bunch of fake two-euro coins that were making the rounds in May and June.
Young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity in droves
“Christianity in North America has become extremely emotional,” Wee Sit, who was raised Evangelical, told The Post. “Going to Evangelical worship services, I found it to be like emotionally driven rock concerts, with the lifting up of the hands.”
The 12th-grader says he was attracted to Orthodoxy because it is more traditional and masculine. He especially appreciates the challenge and the discipline required to adhere to intense prayer and fasting.
Casting light on relief map shading
Even today, nearly all maps everywhere are illuminated from the northwest.
SQL nulls are weird (Hacker News Comment)
SQL NULLs aren't weird, they're just based off of Kleene's TRUE-FALSE-UNKNOWN logic!
If you want you can read NULL as UNKNOWN and suddenly a whole bunch of operations involving them become a lot more intuitive
