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On September 30, 2024, former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo passed away at the age of 58 due to brain cancer. He was a four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. [Playio] On This Day: September 29th https://link.playio.co/u5xsop

• Actually has long legs: They usually look like fluffy balls of fur, but beneath their feathers, they have slender, long legs, making them very agile when flying and hunting. • Can turn their heads 270 degrees: Their necks have 14 cervical vertebrae and a special vascular structure, allowing them to rotate up to 270 degrees left and right, minimizing blind spots. • Eyeballs can't move: Their eyes are tubular and cannot move within their sockets, so they have to turn their heads to see their surroundings clearly.

On September 29, 1941, the troops of Nazi Germany (Nationalsozialistisches Deutschland) rounded up Jews in Kyiv, Ukraine (Україна, Ukraina) and executed them at Babi Yar (Бабин Яр; Babyn Yar), an event known as the Babi Yar Massacre. Victims also included Soviet prisoners of war, Roma people, and Ukrainians, with an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 people killed. [Playio] On This Day: September 29th https://link.playio.co/8m5hbow

On September 29, 1954, 12 European countries signed an agreement, establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, with research achievements including the discovery of the Higgs boson and the development of the World Wide Web. [Playio] On This Day: September 28th https://link.playio.co/fg2x4n

On September 28, 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi launched the Wuxu Coup, just over a hundred days after the Hundred Days' Reform began. She first abolished all reforms, imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, and without trial, executed six reformist figures: Kang Guangren, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Lin Xu, Tan Sitong, and Liu Guangdi. These six are also known as the 'Six Gentlemen of the Wuxu Coup'. [Playio] On This Day: September 28th https://link.playio.co/il9kcp

On September 28, 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, opening the field of antibiotics in medicine and significantly extending human life expectancy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for this achievement. [Playio] On This Day in History: September 27 https://link.playio.co/aw3kar6

Giraffes: Giraffes are born without vocal cords and cannot make sounds.

On September 27, 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi founded the National League for Democracy, a political party in Myanmar. In the 1990 Myanmar general election, she won 392 out of 492 parliamentary seats. However, the Myanmar military junta unilaterally annulled the election results, imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi, and restricted her travel in and out of the country until her official release in late 2010. [Playio] On This Day: September 27th https://link.playio.co/h0p37ff

On September 27, 1905, German-born physicist Albert Einstein first mentioned the equation "E=mc²" in a paper published in the journal Annalen der Physik. [Playio] On This Day in History: September 26 https://link.playio.co/jb309n

Not sure if this is the right place, but I guess this is useless knowledge... maybe it fits? Currently, Playio's subscription board isn't perfect, lacking pinning or sorting features. As someone who strives for perfection... If an old subscribed board has sunk down, you can unsubscribe and then resubscribe to make it float back up; it's like a makeshift pinned board. Based on this, you can also achieve various sorting variations (if you have too much time): alphabetical sorting, subscriber count sorting, etc... This is my board (sorted by subscriber count), useless knowledge increased.ᐟ.ᐟ.ᐟ