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TIL In 1919 Britain's most remote colony, Tristan da Cunha, learned that World War One had started and ended after not being resupplied for 10 years.

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RoeQ TIL the Fahrenheit system was designed with the freezing point of brine as 0 degrees, 32 degrees as the freezing point of water, and 96 degrees as the temperature of the human body. The difference between 32 and 96 was useful for instrumentation at the time (64 can be bisected 6 times).
EgEoW TIL that Ransom E. Olds created the first mass-produced car, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. After being forced out of the company, he founded another company based on his initials, REO. They created a car that was the ancestor of the pickup truck, called the Speed Wagon.
J1bl TIL that Ian Fleming, the original author of the James Bond series, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang”
x67oD TIL: boss baby is a book adaptation
jNX4Q TIL that all of Michael Jackson's parents and grandparents lived to be older than 85, with his paternal grandfather even turning 100 shortly before his death