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v1X97 Til that the English meaning of 1 billion which was 1 million million, was changed in 1975 to adopt the American meaning which stands at 1 thousand million.
oBZZL TIL that in 2013 a zoo in China tried to pass off a hairy dog as a lion
OG60L TIL Kate Winslet broke Tom Cruise's underwater filming record while filming Avatar 2. Winslet held her breath during a scene for seven minutes and twelve seconds beating the mark of six minutes Cruise set while filming Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
5Ep TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.
kdym TIL in 1623, the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard designed what was probably the first mechanical digital computer. Schickard died of bubonic plague soon, but his machine was replicated later and is likely to have worked in spite of some imperfections.