“Coffman device used a large blank cartridge containing Cordite that, when fired, pushed a piston forward” - Coffman engine starter - Wikipedia
“getting (approximately) one extra high-skilled worker causes a 23% increase in the probability of a successful IPO within five years” - The United States is Starved for Talent - Marginal R...
“Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radioactive sources” - Atomic gardening - Wikipedia
“ Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinkin...
“Anecdotal evidence has led many people to conclude that alcohol beverage sales were down in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest immediately after the legalization of recreational marijuana.” ...
“Black women in the United States die having a child at roughly the same rate as women in Mongolia.” - America Doesn’t Care About Its Children
“The UK male suicide rate of 15.5 deaths per 100,000 was the lowest since our time-series began in 1981;” - Suicides in the UK - Office for National Statistics
“ Cherry growers have long tried to find ways to dry the cherries and prevent the rot/split problems. They put fans on tall poles in their orchards and run blowers up and down the rows. But th...
“80% of prisoners released late 2018 in a presidential pardon have opted to return to Kinshasa’s infamous Makala jail due to lack of means to live, say prison authorities” - Home / Twitte...
“Over the past 60 years, the energy efficiency of ever-less expensive logic engines has improved by over one billion fold. No other machine of any kind has come remotely close to matching that ...
“Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined. Collectively, all those transistors consume more electricity tha...
“ Get out of the way people! Take it from Doug DeMuro. His reviews always start with him standing behind the car. The car is in full view, in all its glory, at center stage. Doug comes secon...
“We show that the attractiveness to horseflies of a dark brown human body model significantly decreases, if it is painted with the white stripes that are used in bodypaintings. Our brown human ...
“We identify a large positive effect for subtitled original version broadcasts, as opposed to dubbed television, on English proficiency scores.” - TV or not TV? The impact of subtitling on ...
“it also feeds the one-dimensional narrative of Africa as a war-torn, disease-ridden, poverty-stricken hellscape where all hope dies. This inclination to fit people and events into simple plot ...
“An automated larval rearing robot” - How to Kill Mosquitoes? Google and Verily Have a Plan - Bloomberg
“the commonly used letters X and Z were giving way to A and O endings so as to attract Romance languages speaking clients” - Natesto®. What Else? New Trends in Drug Naming: Names: Vol 66, ...
“In 1880, when the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declared GMT the official time zone for all of Great Britain, Ireland was given its own time zone. Dublin Mean Time was twenty-fiv...
“driving along a motorway is a dreadful bore, like riding a train without a book” - On Roads: A Hidden History - Joe Moran - Google Books
“ the film bucket from the first KH-9 HEXAGON sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in spring 1972 after Air Force recovery aircraft failed to snag the bucket’s parachute. The film insid...