J.P. Morgan scammed Nikola Tesla out of $850,000, and then payed off everyone to call Nikola Tesla "crazy" after Nikola told him he wanted the concept of free international electricity.

NASA plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026

You know what really grinds my gears? External unbalanced torque!

Space fact: A light-year is the distance covered by light in a single year.

One of the first photos of lightning ever taken in an urban environment: a lightning strike on the Eiffel Tower on June 3, 1902, at 9:20 PM by photographer Gabriel Loppé. The tower itself was designed as a natural lightning rod, acting as a Faraday cage, and is struck approximately 5 times per year.

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Our current year 2025 is the sum of the first 9 cubes: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³=2025

iPhone Air is the "5th thinnest phone" ever made in the history of smartphones. 🇨🇳 vivo X5Max (2014): 4.75mm 🇨🇳 Oppo R5 (2014): 4.85mm 🇨🇳 Gionee Elife S5.1 (2014): 5.1mm 🇨🇳 Gionee Elife S5.5 (2014): 5.55mm 🇺🇸 iPhone Air (2025): 5.64mm

The first proof for 1+1=2 was given by the well-known mathematicians Bertrand Russel and Alfred North in their book "Principia Mathematica". It was 360 pages long!

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Our Sun is becoming more active and NASA doesn't know why

Space Shuttle Launches as F15 patrols the skies.

Electrons: I can't do it if you watch!

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American engineer and inventor Thomas Edison with his friend and fellow industry tycoon, Henry Ford late 1920s.

The B2 Spirit bomber has a clever mechanism to close its refueling port to keep a slick surface for stealth.

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Whoaaaaa 😱 This is what it looks like when a spacecraft touches the Sun ☀️🚀 Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory

Pythagorean Triple Square Day. This occurs once per century on 9/16/25. The square roots of those numbers make up the Pythagorean triple of 3^2+4^2=5^2.

Lithium Ion Battery was invented by ExxonMobil

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The first internet router called IMP 1 was the size of a phonebooth.

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The first theory that an increase in atmospheric CO2 could warm the planet was formulated in 1892.

Your pee has a color meter to track hydration

The An-72, a light transport aircraft, which needed just 620m runway for takeoff, 1977

While a kilogram is defined by a physcal object (the only object in the world that weighs exactly 1kg), a pound is legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms

If you could produce a sound louder than 1100dB, you would possibly create a black hole, sufficient to destroy our entire Galaxy.

A Russian Jewish engineer named Jakow Trachtenberg developed a system of rapid mental calculation (The Trachtenberg system) while being held in a Nazi concentration camp in order to keep his mind occupied.

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPodswill be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU. Live Translation with AirPods coming to these European countries:

“The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.” - Unknown

1*1=1 11*11=121 111*111=12321 1111*1111=1234321 11111*11111=123454321 111111*111111=12345654321 1111111*1111111=1234567654321 11111111*11111111=123456787654321 111111111*111111111=12345678987654321

The first photo of Earth taken from the moon in 1966 wasn't planned. While scouting landing sites, controllers noticed perfect view of Earth rising over the horizon and adjusted the camera on Lunar Orbiter 1 to capture the moment. This predates the more famous 1968 'Earthrise' (Apollo 8).

x² + y² = 25 2x + y = 10 x + y = ?

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If you think you are smarter than the previous generation... 50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

The Apple iPod (2001) 1,000 songs in your pocket...

Biggest Ship Elevator In The World, The Three Gorges Dam Shiplift

The Polishing Cloth is not compatible with the new iPhones :(

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🇦🇶 Antarctic Snow Cruiser. Built between 1937 and 1939 for expeditions to Antarctica

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Every second approximately 65 billion tiny subatomic particles called Neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of the Earth's surface.

The Titanic's Propellers, 1911

Experimental new sunscreen forgoes minerals, replacing them with plant pollen. When applied to animal skin in lab tests, it rated SPF 30, blocking 97% UV rays. It had no effect on corals, even after 60 days. By contrast, corals died of bleaching within 6 days of exposure to commercial sunscreens.

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Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, has suggested that there might be some truth in the “dead internet theory”.