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TIL the Pomodoro Technique was developed using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer. 🍅

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xj6b TIL That on the final Mercury Flight, astronaut Gordo Cooper’s capsule lost all power. He had to manually bypass the control system to fire the retro rockets and drogue chute and use his wrist watch for time and stars for reference points. It was the most accurate landing to that point in history.
KXME TIL there is enough energy in one hour of sunlight to serve the entire planet’s energy needs for approximately one year.
D16Og TIL that both Alabama and Mississippi have a higher literacy rate than California or New York
9Y4Q TIL that the fastest object ever made was a manhole cover accidentally launched by a nuclear explosion.
voNK TIL tired of having his album “Aqualung” called a “concept album”, Jethro Tull’s lead Ian Anderson composed the album “Thick as a Brick” with only one song called “Thick as a Brick”, with 42 minutes of duration