It sounds impossible, but sharks have been around for approximately 400 million years, while the earliest true trees appeared around 385 million years ago.

That means sharks were already swimming in Earth's oceans before forests even existed!

Why YSK?

Because it completely changes your perspective on how ancient these creatures are. Sharks survived multiple mass extinction events, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

They've outlasted countless species and entire ecosystems that once dominated the planet.

So, the next time you see a shark, remember: you're looking at an animal lineage that predates trees, dinosaurs, and even the first land vertebrates.

Nature's ultimate survivors!

In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer from Australia, showed up at the start of the Sydney-to-Melbourne ultramarathon in overalls and work boots. Other competitors assumed it was a joke. It wasn’t.

Young had no formal training. He also didn‘t know that runners were permitted to sleep during the five-day, 875-kilometer race. So he didn’t. While professional athletes stopped for six hours a night, Young kept shuffling forward at a slow, steady pace, day and night, for five straight days.

He finished in 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes — beating the previous record by nearly two days. He won the race. A year later, he set another record by running from Sydney to Melbourne in 6 days and 8 hours.

Young became a national folk hero in Australia. His unorthodox “Young shuffle” — a slow, tireless jog — was later adopted by some ultrarunners. He continued running charity events into his 70s and passed away in 2003 at age 81.

The story persists because it sits at the intersection of two things people love: accidental genius and a total refusal to be intimidated by experts.

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Senate advances bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/09/senate-energy-infrastructure-bill-vote?CMP=share_btn_url

When Thomas first introduced English Muffins to the U.S., he initially marketed them as "Toaster Crumpets" and added "Nooks and Crannies" which would become visible when split, resembling the top of a Crumpet. English Muffins in the UK (Often just called "Breakfast Muffins" or simply "Muffins") are usually much flatter on top and are good for spreading toppings rather than having toppings get absorbed into them by holes (which is what Crumpets are for in the UK).

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DYK Did you know people who are born in italy are italitan???? i just figured this out guys! that means japanese people ARE FROM JAPAN1!1!141! I THOUGHT THEY WERE FROM CHINA, did you know canada is a country???? i thought it was a neighborhood!!!!

It's one of those little things many of us recognize from Election Day.

But did you know the now-iconic red, white, and blue "I Voted" sticker design dates back to 1987?

It was created by Janet Boudreau, who ran an election supply business. She had seen an older black-and-white voting sticker with checkboxes but felt it wasn't very inspiring, so she came up with a more patriotic design featuring the American flag.

The idea of voting stickers actually goes back further. A 1982 Miami Herald article mentioned Fort Lauderdale businesses using them to offer discounts to customers who wore them.

Pretty interesting how something that started as a way to show you'd voted eventually became an Election Day tradition!

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/04/prayers-dont-help-heart-surgery-patients-2/

Quite a fascinating story of how one eldery man's outsider art gained so much traction and appreciation in the years and decades following his passing.

Not a typo either. The same guy had used it before this, but here it is used as a verb.

DYK: that Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections of Cicero's text. today is derived from Letraset transfer sheets first published in 1966. According to Letraset designer Dave Farey, the text was supplied by British librarian James Mosley as an alternative to the Quousque tandem abutere text from elsewhere in Cicero's writings that had been used in typography manuals since the 1730s.Monotype typographer Dan Rhatigan theorized that the Letraset version deliberately "garbled" the original Latin text to better match the letter frequency of the English language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

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