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TIL of a 20th century pilot who landed intoxicated in the streets of New York City; twice, because a bar patron refused to believe he had done it the first time.

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PYmGL TIL In 1895, workers finished the largest achromatic refractor that would ever be created: the Yerkes telescope. George Ellery Hale, an American astronomer, convinced the Chicago tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes to finance the telescope
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PYE6J TIL that to lower the cost of the car and make it more affordable to Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management”, resulting in a assembly line that reduced the time for car manufacturing, from 12 hours to 93 minutes