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Some Arbitrary Facts About The Number 280
Twitter is trialling an extension to its character limit for tweets – from 140 to 280. Seeing as they find combatting online abuse and Nazism so arbitrary, here are some meaningless facts about the number 280. 280 is an octagonal number Greek mathematician Pappus geometrically demonstrated the property of the center of gravity in 280AD …