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TIL the Chicken McNugget was invented by Herb Lotman, who grew his company -Keystone Foods- to one of the largest beef and chicken suppliers in the world, with annual sales of up to $5 Billion (mostly to fast food chains, like McDonalds).

GNXJ TIL-Astronauts from the Gemini and Apollo missions used a condom like device to extract urine. The sizes were small, medium and large. Instead of these terms, Astronauts preferred to use “extra large, immense, and unbelievable”.
p8LRe TIL of Sophia Blanchard one of the first women to fly hot air balloons. She lost consciousness on a few occasions, endured freezing temperatures and almost drowned when her balloon crashed in a marsh. In 1819, she died when her air balloon crashed. 10 years earlier her husband died the same way.
oB8rY TIL about the IBM's System/23 Datamaster, designed to be set-up and operated by first-time computer users, and the predecessor to the PC. This desktop computer weighed 95 lbs, had 256 kB of memory, a text-only display, and cost around $9,000 (equivalent to $25,310 in 2019).
PYJvO TIL If we went back a thousand years, each of us would have over a trillion direct ancestors, which is more than all the humans who have ever lived. So yeah, we're all descended from royalty, somewhere.
VMrKG TIL: Historically, monarchs in East Asia would use two alternative titles: internally they claimed to be “emperors”, but in dealing with China they called themselves “kings” to avoid offending the Chinese.