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TIL the national animal of Scotland is a unicorn

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Br68W TIL Grumman Aerospace Corporation—makers of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned—for towing services.
7rvZ TIL one of the most dangerous books ever made, “Shadows From the Walls of Death,” simply contains samples of arsenic-infused wallpapers.
oRAJW TIL that ancient numeral systems like Egyptian hieratic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, Chinese, and early Indian Brahmi were all non-positional decimal systems, requiring large numbers of symbols. The world’s earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus.
prxA TIL Donald Trump ran a university that was intended to teach investing skills, however, it was all a scam.
Jlm TIL There were black slaveowners in America