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Pints of beer in South Australia are 25% smaller than in the rest of the country.

But they need to adapt to robotic augmentation. 🤖 #engineering https://t.co/A1uiQpWmZd

Yielding the floor to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer is retiring in 2022. 😁 #engineering https://t.co/QhWG0SHBee

It’s World Bee Day! 🐝 Take some time today to recognize the crucial role these buzzing critters play in Earth’s ecosystems. Roughly one-third of all the food we eat requires pollination, and invertebrates—including bees—do a great majority of this work by traveling from flower to flower. Most of Earth’s plant communities, and many of our agricultural crops, would vanish without pollination. Photo: Bob Peterson, CC BY 2.0, flickr

In the 1950s, fish fingers were just one of a variety of newly introduced rectangular foods which included sticks, ham sticks, veal sticks and dried butter bean sticks.

It’s official: Working long hours literally kills us. 😥 #engineering https://t.co/ES2rntFhRa

SITE OF THE DAY: This one that shows the age of each the world's international borders. https://t.co/Qm9fElEDTz

Israel's lander Beresheet's crash-landing unleashed tardigrades onto the Moon. Could they have survived? 🤔 #engineering https://t.co/EUQgguTxsu

And it's a lot like ours. 🌌 #engineering https://t.co/UIunUzpyqv

Word of the Day: SOUSVEILLANCE — the monitoring of authorities by regular people, literally ‘watching from below’, as opposed to ‘surveillance’, ‘watching from above’.

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Check out the process of spinning a 14" X 10" (35 X 25 cm) steel cone. 😲 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9Fp8C 🎥 americanmetalspinning/ Instagram #engineering https://t.co/KY5rMFbd8S

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If you didn't already have a favorite beetle, let us introduce you to the golden tortoise beetle. 🌟 These "goldbugs" belong to Chrysomelidae, the leaf beetle family, and can be found in India and Southeast Asia. ⁠ ⁠ 📸: sony_thokchom⁠ ⁠ #accessibility text: Video of a few golden tortoise beetles crawling on a hand.