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TIL that our current smartphones have a power of calculation far superior from the one the NASA had to send man in space during the 60s

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b6d0 TIL that dropping molten glass into cold water produces a tadpole-like shape whose head can withstand hammer blows, but which explodes violently if its tail is damaged.
D1bOr TIL That the Twinkie diet study, which aimed to prove that only calories mattered for weight loss, was secretly (at the time) funded by Coca-Cola.
0Ewj TIL the first solar cell developed had less than 1% conversion efficiency, and was denounced as a fraud by the USA for “generating power without consuming matter, violating the laws of physics.”
8aknb TIL: Howard Ulrich and his 7-year old son were fishing in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958 when a landslide generated a 1,720ft tsunami, the largest in recorded history. He and his son both miraculously survived, being found nearly a mile from where they were anchored at the time the wave hit their boat.
5Yp4r TIL about Katie Bouman, a computer scientist who at the age of 29 led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP). In April 2019 the first ever image of a black hole was acquired.