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TIL that Senator Cory Booker is cousins with RuPaul

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Mep9a TIL about the Digital Wellbeing feature offered by android, wherein you can, among other things, switch on Focus Mode with distracting apps paused, keep track of time spent on apps, have work related apps switched off at home and do many other things to manage your time and mind space.
e0OZE Today I learned that auto makers have been adding fake engine noises to their car speaker systems, or even adding entirely separate speaker systems to increase the rumble and depth of the sound of engines to compensate for modern efficiency resulting in less oomph. It’s called a Soundaktor.
KwEB TIL the Seattle Space Needle’s center of gravity is 5 feet above ground level and it can stand Category 5 hurricane-force winds
nWG89 TIL Mozart, Lenin and Hitler were all regulars at the very same bar
pMYQ TIL In order for NASA to have constant communication with the Skylab space station in the 70’s, 8 specially outfitted planes with satellites flew around around the Earth. Each plane would take turns transmitting data until it was out of reach.