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Word of the evening: STALE-DRUNK (19th century) - a person who goes out drinking again without having recovered from the previous evening's adventures.

Manually cutting metals with a torch has never been this practical 🔥 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9nNK2 🎥 omgtools / TikTok #engineering https://t.co/rKaoUstVzQ

Despite thorough protocols, bacteria or microbes may have survived on the craft sent to Mars by NASA. 🦠 #engineering #life #Mars https://t.co/7Lp3oDIJlp

Scrabble’s inventor assigned values to letters by painstakingly counting their frequencies in the Saturday Evening Post & New York Times.

A cottonwood tree in Idaho is now a source of book reading for the entire neighborhood https://t.co/HnbAdP10Ib

Surprise! Even real life gets pop-ups. 😲 #engineering #Ford #ads https://t.co/qIKgsku3fR

This mud puddle is moving across the Southern California Desert at 20 feet per year. 😲 #engineering #mud #puddle https://t.co/R1IleEA0bO

A FAMILECT is the distinct dialect you develop with your family - the pet names, the inside jokes, the deliberately mispronounced words. For instance, for @Nigella_Lawson, "mee-cro-wah-vay" would be part of her familect.

The process of hardening steel with heat. 🤩 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9nNK2 🎥 davidyoer / TikTok #engineering https://t.co/caYifSgURd

Of those, 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before and about 80% are negative.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising came to an end as Nazi soldiers gained control of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto, blowing up the last remaining synagogue and beginning the mass deportation of the ghetto’s remaining dwellers to the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camp.

How far would you go for an amazing wedding photo? 😮 Photographer Charleton Churchill is known for his adventurous images of newlyweds in Alaskan ice caves, Nepal's Mount Everest and the cliffs of California's Yosemite National Park (pictured here). "The day after their wedding in October, Arielle and Adam hiked several miles in their wedding dress and suit to that cliff," he says. "We communicated through radios. I tried to get them positioned so I could get the best view without it being dangerous ... I said, ‘Can you go any further?’ and Adam said, ‘No, this is good.’” 😳 To see more of his jaw-dropping wedding photos — including one under a meteor shower! ☄️ — visit the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ [Image: charletonchurchill]

How do gigantic tower cranes pop up on construction sites in just a few days? 🤔 Find out more information at https://t.co/TRDN8jWl4S #engineering https://t.co/lBwlWTQcwy

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

This machine can cut your firewood in a precise way 😍 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9nNK2 🎥 POSCH Leibnitz #engineering https://t.co/rLNhmo6K6H