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TIL Nikon camera brand belongs to Mitsubishi

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WX78 TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.
QNga9 TIL: The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to 4 in (101.6 mm), used to measure the height of horses in many English-speaking countries, including the USA.
QNjO9 TIL a Filipino doctor discovered erythromycin but was never credited or compensated
6KMm TIL baptizing people with beer had to be specifically condemned by the pope in the 13th c., as a place in Norway with a water shortage (but not a beer shortage) was using beer for the sacrament. All beer baptisms were declared invalid, and those who received them had to be baptized again with water.
Xn88 TIL that the seed of the Nutmeg fruit is encased in a bright red lace structure called Aril that is used to make the spice Mace.