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TIL that the 428 Cobra Jet, one of Ford's most legendary high performance engines, was created by accident. It all started with a careless mechanic, a blown engine, and a resourceful shop owner. The resulting mishmash of components created such a beast that Ford itself decided to build it.

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rRamd TIL of Operation Pastorius, a German WWII mission of sabotage inside the United States. It failed primarily due to defections, but was in danger of being compromised right from the start as one of the agents, when drunk, announced to patrons at a bar in Paris that he was a secret agent.
4QYb TIL that in 2010 alone, a peer reviewed study found that reductions in fine particle pollution and ozone pollution achieved by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 avoided more than 160,000 deaths and prevented 13 million lost workdays.
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.
dvvK TIL that finding evidence of even microbial life on Mars could be very bad news for humanity. One of the most popular solutions to The Fermi Paradox is that there exists a “Great Filter” for life. Finding evidence of life elsewhere would mean the the filter is most likely still ahead of us.
p8KkN TIL Unobtainium, a metal featured in films like "Avatar" and "The Core", was an engineering term coined in the 50's to describe any highly desirable material that is hypothetical, scientifically impossible, extremely rare, costly, or fictional