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The world’s shortest and tallest men have finally met. He Pingping is just 73 cm (2’5”), while Sultan Kosen is a towering 246.5 cm (8’1).

(via He Pingping and Sultan Kosen | World’s tallest and shortest men meet | News.com.au)

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Diamond oceans could explain why the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune appear tilted so far off their north-south axes, given that they could deflect or tilt the magnetic fields. Both planets may consist of up to 10 percent carbon, the elemental building block of diamond. (via Neptune and Uranus May Have Oceans of Liquid Diamond | Popular Science)

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Jumping off the Burj

So last week the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was opened, the latest building to be qualified as the world’s tallest. It cost something like 1.5 billion dollars to construct and is basically a vertical…

Jumping off the Burj

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..when the Iranian elections came up, and then the disputes, we found out they were using Facebook as a tool to organize themselves and expose their qualms and discontent with the government. So publicly we translated the entire site into Farsi within 36 hours. It was our second right-to-left language, which was actually really difficult for us. Literally the entire site is flipped in a mirror. The fact that we did it in thirty-six hours — they hired twenty some-odd translators, and engineers worked around the clock to get it rolled out — was pretty fucking phenomenal. We had at least three times as many user registrations per day the first day it was out, and it has been growing.

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