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I made a tiny mailbox for the spider living in my attic

TIL that Harrison Ford was very shy, didn't like talking about himself and was not at all interested in the movie star lifestyle. He suffered from anxiety and had had a lifelong fear of public speaking. Even in films, when required to make a speech in character, he got the same nervous condition.

Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and shot by government forces on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919. Zapata’s influences have endured long after his death and his agrarian reform movement, Zapatismo, remains important to many Mexicans today. To learn more about Emiliano Zapata, visit the link in our bio.

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TIL that in the 1950's the US airforce tried to design a cockpit to fit the average pilot's body. After measuring 4000 pilots they discovered that none of them came close to having an average body. This lead to introduction of adjustable seats.

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Apples first originated in Kazakhstan.

TIL in 1991 a youth group in Denmark wrote to Gorbachev of Russia to ask for a free submarine. He said yes, and 3 years later they received a massive 76 meter (250 ft) submarine.

The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them not to reason using figures, but to use only textual descriptions and the axioms of geometry. It depicts two arrangements made of similar shapes in slightly different configurations. Each apparently forms a 13×5 right-angled triangle, but one has a 1×1 hole in it. #worldofengineering #science #math #mathematics #geometry #puzzle #school #student #university

This is the Amsterdam canal cleaning, but not for dirt, but for bikes. 🚲😄 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9nNK2 🎥 domenicmango / TikTok #engineering https://t.co/RS6cXGV5F0

Check out how the smart screen inside the Sony Vision-S looks like in this video taken during a test drive. 📺 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9Fp8C 🎥 fujiwarahiroshi / Instagram #engineering https://t.co/4q035MsnE1

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In the late 20th-century, nearly all newly designed bras in the USA were tested out on the same fitting model, Dorothy Galligan, who was a size 34B.

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