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TIL Beretta firearms has been owned and operated by the same family for almost 500 years.

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N7006 TIL that half of your life's perceived experience is over by 18 due to the decrease in the relative year length as you get older. This means the time period from 18 until you die at 100 will feel as long as since you could remember anything until the age of 18.
OGopg TIL to collect taxes, Christian IV of Denmark asked captains of ships crossing the Øresund to estimate the value of their cargo, which was applied as the tax base without further audit. But the king also claimed the right to buy the entire cargo at exactly that price.
LkM1r TIL of Project Thor which explored using large projectiles from 1,000+ miles above the Earth. The "rods from god" idea was a bundle of telephone-pole-size tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound. The explosion would be on par with a nuke - but no fallout.
jNyeM TIL: Pumpernickel (as in the bread) loosely translates to the Farting Devil in German.
R57jl TIL about the Financial Modeling World Cup, which is essentially the World Cup for Competitive excel users. Participants solve real-life case studies by building financial models in Microsoft Excel. $25,000 prize fund.