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TIL Engineers used to rely on imprecise calculations with slide rules that only showed three decimal points but designed the Empire State Building, Saturn V rocket with them. As a result, they designed conservatively by making walls thicker and bridges stronger than needed

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0Xry TIL that the city of Seattle generates 90% of its electricity from water (and almost all the rest from nuclear and wind)
OGDyR TIL in January 1974 Nixon Signed a Law Making Daylight Savings Time Year-Round for Two Years and in October 1974 Gerald Ford Reversed it Because it Was Very Unpopular During Winter Months.
69d68 TIL That there is a tiny island called “Just Room Enough Island” in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence What makes it unique is that the island is so small that it only has enough space for a single house and a tree.
epVkD TIL that vending machines are more likely to kill you than a shark attack
neOad TIL in 2013 , 'Sweetie' the animated avatar of a 'fictional' 10 year filipina girl was used in a Webcam child-sex sting Operation to identify over a thousand pedophiles from all over the world