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TIL there is a book called "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" that explains the process of how to get current tools from nothing. [PDF]

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woNr1 TIL that all the gold ever mined could fit into just 3.5 olympic swimming pools
e7xn TIL when a German hacker stole the source code for Half Life 2, Gabe Newell tricked him in to thinking Valve wanted to hire him as an “in-house security auditor”. He was given plane tickets to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI
JB68 TIL An Indian man whose wife died when medical attention could not reach her, carved a 360ft long path through a mountain to cut the time it took for medical assistance to arrive at his village. It took him 22 years and shorted the journey from the nearest town to 1Km, from 75Km