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TIL The National Film Board of Canada, an agency of the Government of Canada, has received 74 Oscar nominations. More than any film organization in the world outside of Hollywood (it has won 12).

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D1VAY TIL the US signed a treaty to convert to metric units in 1878. Instead of converting they changed the definition of all units to their metric equivalent.
xVB4k TIL that naturalist William Bartram described finding a "painted vulture" during his travels in Florida in the 1770s. No one else has ever found this supposed Florida bird. It's not known exactly what the "painted vulture" was—it could have been a subspecies or relative of the living king vulture.
R5oJa TIL Alexander Graham Bell believed people should say “Ahoy” when they pick up the phone. Edison proposed “hello,” putting that word into common usage.
BryNe TIL that all printers use yellow ink to print an identifiable and traceable code on everything they print; that way if someone tries to counterfeit money, send threatening letters, etc it can be proven to have come from their printer.
wLMKJ TIL Of the One-Electron Universe postulate, an hypothesis which claims all electrons in the universe are the same one just moving forward and backward in time.