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Jun 14, 2020

TIL of the Chain Test. For an arch to stand, it must fit into the mirrored shape generated by a chain.

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May 26, 2020

TIL When Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.

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Feb 02, 2020

TIL it took mathematicians 65 years to solve the "42 problem", i.e, to find 3 numbers such that sum of their cubes is 42. They did it using a supercomputer and millions of hours of calculations.

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Nov 24, 2019

TIL To demonstrate the ability of drones to accomplish work while swarming, researchers programmed flying robot quadrotors to perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame.

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Aug 15, 2019

TIL Researchers at Yale cooked 4000-year old Babylonian stews from recipes written on ancient clay tablets, including a stew made from onion and leeks, beets, and broth of lamb

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Apr 03, 2019

TIL that there is a font called Sans Forgetica which helps the reader remember the text they read due to the difficulty in reading it, making the brain remember it as it used up more resources.

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