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Your coffee cup contains 5 engineering decisions you never think about:
1. Wall thickness - thinner = lighter, thicker = better heat retention. They ran the math.
2. Handle angle - tested ergonomically for the average hand span across 3 continents.
3. Rim curvature - affects pour rate. Flat rims spill more.
4. Base diameter - optimized to not tip at the 23° angle of a shaking table.
5. Glaze composition - food-safe, non-reactive, survives 500+ dishwasher cycles.
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Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Schrödinger: Nice.
Space fact:
The word “astronaut” means “star sailor” in its origins.
Porsche also builds tractors
100,000,001 is divisible by 17
Two atoms were walking down the street and one said, oh no I lost an electron! The second asks, are you sure? First one says, yes I’m positive!
Engineering is magic
A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing.
The bartender asks, “What’s wrong, buddy?”
The Möbius strip replies, “Where do I even begin?”
Space fact:
On average, a bit of space debris crashes back to Earth about once a week.
Your eyes are more powerful than you might think. The Earth’s curvature is what keeps a person from seeing for kilometres in the distance. But if the Earth were flat, you’d be able to detect the flame of a candle from 48 kilometres (30 miles) away. That’s like being able to see the flame of a candle from twice the length of the island of Manhattan!
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What's the coolest mathematical fact you know of?
ldk = I don’t know
Imo = in my opinion
Brb = be right back
F = ma
pV = nRT
V = IR
p1V1 = p2V2
E = mc²
The brain uses 20% of your body’s oxygen, but only makes up about 2% of your total body weight
A car’s weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.
Life tip: When you purchase anything with a warranty, email to yourself photos / screenshots of your receipt and serial numbers with a description of what it is so you can search it any time
Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days
Not all math puns are terrible. Just sum.
When water freezes it expands by 9%
Polaroid camera founder Edwin Land built up a company that did about $1.4 billion of business all over the world in 1979. He never diversified into other businesses, never sold out to another company, and never borrowed money on a long-term basis
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