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TIL In 1959 NASA contacted Pillsbury to create food safety management system for space travel. It is now industry standard and in practice in food establishments around the world.

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ywVa TIL when the ex UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher died, the song “Ding dong! The witch is dead! reached number 2 in the UK charts.
PYMyZ TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.
5YOB9 TIL that Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway was inspired when screenwriter William Broyles, Jr deliberately stranded himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez in which a volleyball washed up on shore.
0Vky TIL that billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty installed a pay phone at his mansion for guests to use so that he would not be billed for their calls.
P1JPw TIL of The Niagara Escarpment. The escarpment is the cliff over which the Niagara River plunges at Niagara Falls, for which it is named.