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History of Firefox - Wikipedia

Mozilla Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004, Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005, and version 2.0 was released on October 24, 2006. Firefox 3.0 was released on June 17, 2008, with Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 released on June 30, 2009 and January 21, 2010, respectively. Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011. Since version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks on Tuesday.

The latest version, Firefox 66.0, was released on March 19, 2019.
 
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On why KFC is more popular/profitable in China than the US:

How the Chicken Conquered the World -- Smithsonian Magazine
June 2012

Increasingly, as foreign observers have noticed, “chicken” to the Chinese, at least those who live in the cities, means what’s served at KFC. Since the first drumstick was dipped into a fryer in Beijing in 1987, the chain has opened more than 3,000 branches around the country, and is now more profitable in China than in the United States. Numerous reasons have been advanced for this success, from the cleanliness of the restrooms to the alleged resemblance of Colonel Sanders to Confucius, but it apparently does not reflect a newfound Chinese appetite for the cuisine of the American mid-South. “You can find bone-in fried chicken there,” notes Mary Shelman, a Kentucky native and the head of the agribusiness program at Harvard Business School. “But it’s always dark meat, which the Chinese prefer, and it’s one menu item out of around 30, and it’s not the most popular.” The chain has thrived by offering the Chinese customers food they were already familiar with, including (depending on the region) noodles, rice and dumplings, along with chicken wraps, chicken patties and chicken wings, which are so popular, Shelman says, that the company periodically has to deny rumors it has a farm somewhere that raises six-winged chickens.

KFC in China - Wikipedia

KFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is China's largest restaurant chain. KFC restaurants in China are owned or franchised by Yum China, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains in China and was spun off from Yum! Brands in 2016.

KFC has 5,919 outlets in China as of 2018.

According to research by Millward Brown, KFC was the most powerful foreign brand in China in 2013...

The chain had an early advantage against its Western fast food rivals, as fried chicken has been a staple Chinese dish since antiquity, whereas hamburgers were foreign and relatively unknown.
 
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"Olympus Mons is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. The volcano has a height of nearly 22 km as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter. Olympus Mons is about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level."

~ Wikipedia

(And, according to NASA, the diameter is about the size of Arizona.)
 
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Regarding the Greek letter in the browser tab icon for Psychlinks:

Psi (letter)

The letter psi is commonly used in physics to represent wave functions in quantum mechanics, such as in the Schrödinger equation...It is also used to represent the (generalized) positional states of a qubit in a quantum computer.

Psi is also used as the symbol for the polygamma function...

The letters Ψ or ψ can also be a symbol for:

  • psychology, psychiatry, and sometimes parapsychology (involving paranormal or relating with the supernatural subjects, especially research into extrasensory perception).
  • In mathematics, the reciprocal Fibonacci constant, the division polynomials, and the supergolden ratio
  • Water potential in movement of water between plant cells.
  • In biochemistry, it denotes the rare nucleotide Pseudouridine.
  • Stream function in fluid mechanics defining the curve to which the flow velocity is always tangent.
  • One of the dihedral angles in the backbones of proteins
  • The planet Neptune
  • Indiana University (as a superimposed I and U)
  • A sai, the name of which is pronounced the same way.
  • Pharmacology, general pharmacy
  • In virology the ψ site is a viral packaging signal.
  • The J/ψ meson, in particle physics.
  • In the computability theory...represents the return value...of a program.
  • In circadian physiology, ψ represents the phase relationship between a zeitgeber and a biological rhythm.
  • In building, to represent an adjustment to a U-value, accounting for thermal bridge effects.
  • The ordinal collapsing function and notation developed by Wilfried Buchhol
 
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Roosters Are As Deafening as Jet Engines But Insanely Advanced Ears Protect Their Hearing

The researchers discovered that a rooster’s ear is incredibly technically advanced. When their beaks are fully open, soft tissue moves to cover half their eardrum, while a quarter of the ear canal itself closes off. They also found that the slit which causes their outer ear canal to close doesn’t exist in hens—the hens' ear canals narrows in response to loud sounds like rooster calls, but it doesn't actually close. The roosters don’t deafen all the hens within earshot because the damaging effects diminish significantly with even a few feet of distance, and because birds are capable of regenerating damaged inner ear cells in a way mammals are not.
 
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