A Volvo engineer named Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life-saving tool.
STEM: The 3-point seat belt was invented by Volvo in 1959.
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Space fact:
Saturn has 82 moons, which is more than any other planet. 53 moons are confirmed and named and another 29 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming.
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“I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” - Carl Sagan
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Space fact:
Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects 90% of the Sun’s light.
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This day on September 8, 1930 – @3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
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🤬 What was the most annoying thing about Excel to you?
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This day on September 7, 1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
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Space fact:
Our solar system is 4.568 billion years old.
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My brain: do it!
Me: why?
My brain: just do it!
Me:
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Mathematical puzzle. What is the area of the colored square?
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RT STEM
This little dot is Earth about 6 Billion kilometers away (3.7 billion miles) taken by Voyager 1, as it was leaving our solar system. Launched 5 Sept, 1977.
RT Banana for scale 🍌📏
How bridge foundations over a river are built.
A NASA engineer named Clayton Anderson spent 15 years trying to become an astronaut, being rejected 14 times before finally being selected in 1998. Never give up!
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We have to get the same answer here folks 👇🏽
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24 years ago, on September 4, 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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Space fact:
The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus.
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Physics teacher: Air resistance is negligible.
Kid who wants to be an aeronautic engineer:
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