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TIL of “project sound” A car suspension system by Bose. Over-engineered to the point of being deemed unviable commercially, it outperformed everything on the market.

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9wPp7 TIL the Inuit town of Quaqtaq in far northern Quebec is named for tapeworms, after an old legend in which a native hunter expelled live parasites. The town has a post office, a small airport, and a hotel.
5V8oR TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.
aw5Bb TIL about Femtoengineering, which is technology 6 orders of magnitude smaller than nanotech. At this scale, engineering utilises quarks & strings to manipulate atoms. If achieved, could lead towards macro-scale teleportation, as well as breakthroughs in force field generation and antigravity tech.
DQmPD TIL that in 1170, Catholic Archbishop Thomas Becket was ambushed in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who believed King Henry II wanted him dead. They swing at him with their swords. One sliced off the top of his skull, spilling his brains across the altar.
kJ6PW TIL of Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest confidant and right-hand man in World War II. In 1939, he suffered from stomach cancer and lost 75% of his stomach in an operation. Told that he had only four weeks to live, Hopkins suffered through poor health to work throughout World War II, and died in 1946.