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TIL of ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing a cup of tea

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4Xoow TIL that Elijah Bond, the inventor of the Oujia board, also trademarked a talking board called the Nirvana talking board, which featured the word "Nirvana" inside a swastika. He sold it in his own company, called The Swastika Novelty Company (thankfully well before WWII).
wo5eM TIL about the Peter principle, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence".
Bp8x TIL - The movie Airplane! took only 34 days to shoot and cost $3.5 million.
kgdB TIL slugs love beer. LPT for gardeners - Place shallow dishes of beer around your garden in areas that slugs tend to frequent. Slugs are attracted to the beer but they cannot get out again and drown.
ADp5w TIL The Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language today, with nearly 170,000 speakers. The next most common is Yupik, at 19,750, which is spoken in Alaska