3. TIL that the parasite H. zschokkei is the only multicellular organism that does ...

TIL that the parasite H. zschokkei is the only multicellular organism that does not rely on Oxygen for respiration. It relies on a currently undiscovered energy metabolism to sustain itself.

A company I used to work was big on acronyms for parts. Everything had one. It was the general rule that any assembled in the factory items use an acronym as a name.

Well, they wanted me to design up some portable test stations. It needed to be mobile, easily serviceable and build as much off the shelf parts a possible. Ok, no problem.

The station had batteries as well as one of the big DC power supplies we had. I needed to merge them together then route them to the rest of the station. I made a box that had locking sliders with a terminal hub and some contactors to switch between the batteries, the power supply or run both. I called it the Battery Terminal Interface Connection Hub Box.

When I put the Bill of Materials in, they made me change it for some reason...

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