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TIL that engineers proved that leaving the air conditioning on when you’re not home actually can save energy over setting your thermostat up high and making the A/C work hard when you get home after work

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ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
KYveQ TIL the first known labor strike occurred in 1158 BC when the Pharaoh Ramesses III failed to provide rations to his workers. The workers staged a sit-in at a temple and marched to demand payment from the Vizier.
pYoae TIL that the idea that 19th century doctors would treat hysteria by clitoral massage to produce an orgasm and that vibrators were invented as a labour-saving device for doctors doing so became widely accepted in multiple fields despite the fact there is no evidence for it at all.
Ypb1A TIL that the German submarine U-1206 flooded as a result of improper toilet operation.
Qmkp TIL famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to renowned A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”