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Fact for June 21, 2026
I see a lot of talk about .io games in Forum Surveys.
.io is actually the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Turns out a lot of really small countries and overseas territories have convenient ccTLDs, such as .fm for the Federated States of Micronesia which is frequently used by radio stations[2] and audio sharing websites, most famously Last.fm, and .tv[3] for Tuvalu, which you all know as part of Twitch’s URL. Approximately 8.4% of Tuvalu’s government revenue is from .tv royalties. Tuvalu is at serious risk of ceasing to exist as a result of rising sea levels. If that were to happen, .tv would have to be recreated as a generic top-level domain, but when a whole country is at risk of going underwater, the things we put at the end of URLs are really the least of our worries.
Potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants are part of the same genus, Solanum.[1] The genus contains between 1,240 and 1,700 species. The close relation between species allows you to do some awesome botanical shit by grafting a potato plant and tomato plant together, producing the unstoppable force of nature known as the pomato, which is exactly what you think it is. You can now grow french fries and ketchup from the same plant.
I am not named after these since I have a distaste for all three ↩︎
A chicken gun is essentially a cannon used to test jet engines and aircraft windshields… by shooting a bird carcass[1] into the aircraft at 560 km/h[2]. As you can probably imagine, this is intended to simulate a bird strike. Who said chickens can’t fly?
Usually a chicken. Although the FAA doesn’t require a chicken, they’re the most easily-acquired avian ammunition ↩︎
British Indian Ocean Territory.
Federated States of Micronesia which is frequently used by radio stations[2] and audio sharing websites, most famously Last.fm, and .tv[3] for 
Tuvalu, which you all know as part of Twitch’s URL. Approximately 8.4% of Tuvalu’s government revenue is from .tv royalties. Tuvalu is at serious risk of ceasing to exist as a result of rising sea levels. If that were to happen, .tv would have to be recreated as a generic top-level domain, but when a whole country is at risk of going underwater, the things we put at the end of URLs are really the least of our worries.
