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TIL that "Cybernetics" doesn't necessarily imply robots, rather it is the science of studying control in communication systems

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LkYwZ TIL that Niagara Falls gets turned down at night!
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
kO1rm TIL that in 2002, a widely-watched live TV special followed a robot as it crawled through a 5" opening in the Great Pyramid of Giza, punched a hole in a door at the end of the passage, and inserted a fiber optic camera into the hole. Behind the door was nothing but a small empty space.
9YjMQ TIL That the fastest ever ascent of the world's highest mountain, Mt Everest was in a time of 8 hr 10 min, usually it takes weeks
jN19N TIL Rob Gronkowski lives off of his endorsement money and hasn’t spent a dime of his NFL Contract