We used to have brown bears, but they are pretty much extinct nowadays - until one walks over the border and the press is all over it again (may I remind you of Bruno der Problembär?)

48?

!The double exclamation mark notation in math means 6!! = 6 * 4 * 2!<

Flash news, America is authoritarian

And I just want to add as a physicist: The most interesting manifolds are the differentiable ones, because there you can do general relativity! But manifolds are also relevant in other, more unexpected places, like a pendulum: It moves on a submanifold of R^3 due to the constraint of the string.