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TIL About a toothpaste company that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a manufacturing problem... Months later they learned a line worker found a more efficient solution and fixed the problem with a cheap fan.

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yVbLa TIL that Able Archer 83 was a war exercise conducted by NATO that panicked the Soviets into thinking they were really being attacked and so nearly launched a nuclear retaliation in response; it is now considered to be the nearest that mankind went into nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis
kDwd TIL Albert Einstein believed in “Spinoza’s God”, who “reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
mxX4p TIL married men make 10 to 20% more money on average than men who choose to stay single their entire lives.
0k5v TIL the first time an aircraft shot down another aircraft, the pilot used his rifle to kill his enemy and the plane crashed
x66b1 TIL Pixar flew a rep out to a 10-year-old girl's home with a DVD copy of 'Up' before it was released because it was her dying wish to see the film. She died 7 hours later.