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The most fun way to learn something new everyday.
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A negative thinker has many problems to one solution. A positive thinker has many solutions to one problem.
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NASA's Voyager 1 space probe was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2.
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Scientists renamed 27 human genes in 2020 because Microsoft Excel kept auto-converting their names into dates, causing widespread errors in published genetic research.
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Adapter for threaded rivets
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When you look at the sun, you see how it appeared 8.5 minutes ago.
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Marriage logic map
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Life tip: Remove the batteries from electronics, toys, etc. before storing them away. The batteries may corrode the terminals rendering the item useless in the future.
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When jumpstarting a car, you should connect the negative clamp to an unpainted part of the engine block rather than the negative battery post on the dead car. Otherwise if a spark occured it could ignite the hydrogen gas emitted by the lead acid battery.
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Thread rivet nut
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Supercooled water ๐ง
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How old were you when you found out that nuclear reactors are just fancy steam engines?
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i don't need it but i want it
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Button cell battery names are actually codes include the chemistry, shape, diameter and thickness. CR2032 is C lithium, R round, 20mm diamter, 3.2mm thick
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40 years before Google Maps, you called people who looked at maps
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Nut zipper drill attachment
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Life tip: if youโre trying to focus on studying listen to videogame music. Itโs designed to be background noise while you focus your attention on other tasks.
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And what is your superpower? ๐
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Useful tip
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๐คฏ
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That finish is unreal
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Daniel Fahrenheit (who invented the mercury thermometer) set 0ยฐF to the coldest stable temperature he could maintain in his lab by dissolving salt in water.
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โ - โ = 0 Well yes, but actually no
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Life tip: It's time to turn off your ceiling fans, clean the blades, and reverse the switch.
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How it works
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Albert Einstein and Marie Sktodowska Curie reminiscing by a lake in 1929
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How to install concealed hinges
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Life tip: If a spray bottle doesn't work and still has liquid in it, stick your finger over the nozzle and pump it a few times and it'll create a vacuum and start working again.
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World of Engineering Quiz: Which of these trucks are driving?
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Why is this so satisfying to watch?
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Life tip: The tires should be inflated to the value shown on the sticker on one of the doors or even on the fuel cap, the value written on the wheels is the maximum value, not the recommended value.
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Drops on penny experiment: water vs alcohol. The water molecules have much more cohesion than alcohol molecules, because they grab onto one another through hydrogen bonds.
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Cordless wall chaser
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If the sun vanishes, we wonโt know it for 8 minutes.
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Life tip: When you find an article about a scientific finding, look for the link to the actual study and just read that.
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Useful tip
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Read this vernier caliper.
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Please explain
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Lifting anchor
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Faking the moon landing in 1969 would have been harder than actually going to the moon. It would also take the efforts of more than 400,000 conspirators to keep it a secret.
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Life tip: When asked for your expected salary in an interview never give a number instead give a range.
2 months ago
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Life tip: Type "-ai" (minus AI) at the end of your Google search to disable the AI summary.
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Everything is a hammer unless it's a screwdriver, then it's chisel.
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5 megabytes of storage in 1956:
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Nutcracker
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Right angle attachment
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Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a non-traditional form of precision machining that uses thermal energy instead of mechanical force to remove material from a workpiece.
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It didnโt get any cooler than this in the 1960โs SR 71 Blackbird - it still looks futuristic today, sixty years after it came out.
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The American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, 1935. Number built: 1.
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