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TIL a Top Fuel dragster accelerates so quickly that its already passed 60 mph by the time the rear tires have crossed the start line (25 feet).

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PYj1w TIL about Emergence. Complex things happen when simple objects, rules or people interact. In the presence of a feedback loop, Emergent phenomena create Complex Systems like a Market or Fractals.
YNdG TIL By the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials
kXX1 TIL that after running late to a class, George Dantzig copied down two problems he thought were homework and solved them. The two problems were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics, which later earned him his doctorate.
b94la TIL MLK, Anne Frank, and Barbara Walters we’re born in the same year.
DGND TIL a mason in 1700’s Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can’t be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.