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TIL That The Bing Crosby Laboratories and a research team funded by Crosby created the first videotape recorder (VTR).

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KkMB TIL that originaly, the Celcius temperture scale went backwards, with 0°C being boiling and 100°C freezing water
GA1EG TIL a border collie named Rico was the subject of the first published study on gifted dogs. The research showed that Rico understood 200 words. He also responded correctly to the word for a new object after hearing it just once. This suggested he had the canine equivalent of the ability to fast map.
xPwo TIL that Neil Armstrong only believed he had a 50/50 chance of making it back to Earth
yeKw TIL In the 2001 Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Disney hired Marc Okrand to create an almost entirely new language for the the Atlantean race
N7YAN TIL that Taron Egerton sang “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John as the Gorilla in the movie “Sing” prior to starring in the movie “Rocket Man” as Elton John where he sings the same song.