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TIL Where's Waldo is really Wally
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KOOjB
Modern aircraft have two recorders– one that monitors comms, the other flight instruments. The black boxes are now orange. If the plane does crash, it's easier to find in the wreckage.
ANZbo
TIL that a pinch of salt to black coffee reduces the bitterness, making it much more palatable. This can helpful if you need to reduce sugar or lactose for your health, of which you can reduce the salt once your palate has adjusted. Sodium warning for those it affects.
l7vJr
TIL of a 1998 marketing campaign by watchmaker Swatch, which divided the day into 1000 "beats" rather than the traditional seconds system. It was called "Swatch Internet Time."
wode7
TIL: Sweden sold 1000 Volvo 144 cars and some other items to North Korea in the 1970s. North Korea never paid. North Korea still owes 2.2 billion Swedish kronor (234 million euros) to Sweden from these imports.
OG5R4
TIL there is a philosophical idea called solipsism which says that only one's mind is sure to exist; everything from the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist