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In Batman (1966), the Joker unleashes one of the most ridiculous villain plots ever: sneezing powder. Batman isn’t worried. He calmly reveals he took allergy pills beforehand, making the Joker’s master plan completely useless before ending the crisis with a bat boomerang.

Farrah Fawcett showed up in Season 1, Episode 2 of The Partridge Family, October 2, 1970

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Voyager 1 is 16 billion miles from Earth, still transmitting data. Its power source has been running for 48 years. Voyager is kept alive by a single isotope. 4.5 kilograms of plutonium-238 sits inside a thermoelectric generator. As the isotope decays, it produces heat. 312 silicon-germanium thermocouples convert that heat into electricity. The generator has no moving parts. Hot side at 1,000°C, cold side at 300°C. 470 watts at launch from that temperature gap. The generator is 93.5% inefficient. That inefficiency is what keeps the spacecraft from freezing at -270°C. Power has decayed from 470 watts to 220 since launch. Engineers have shut down 8 of its 10 instruments to squeeze a few more years of data out of interstellar space. Starting in the 1970s over 2,000 plutonium-powered pacemakers went into human chests. Now researchers are replacing plutonium with carbon-14 in synthetic diamond. Carbon-14 only emits beta radiation and the diamond blocks all of it. A 5,700-year battery safe enough to hold in your hand.

In 1887, at just 36, Doc Holliday succumbed in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, his last words reportedly a faintly amused, “This is funny.” The final photograph captures not just a man, but the fading spirit of the Old West itself—restless, untamable, and reckless to the very end. Here is a figure who lived as wildly as the frontier itself, yet whose most inevitable battle was fought quietly, in the stillness of a hotel room, far from the thunder of gunfire he had always known. © Reddit #archaeohistories

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