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TIL that Americans don’t size their papers like A2, A3 or A4 but they use Letter, Legal or Junior Legal.

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R76l4 TIL that The Oregon Trail (1971) is actually older than Pong (1972). It was originally developed for use by a school teacher in Minnesota as a history lesson.
7rkl7 TIL that they train the crews of giant container ships and oil tankers using ride-on models in a big pond.
j6R5v TIL Challenger 2 tanks require two sets of tools, as the hull is built using imperial measurements and the turret is built to metric measurements.
aXAM TIL that an experimental deployable structure that was installed into the Mir space station that failed to deploy was fixed by being kicked.
a8J0L TIL that Dunkin has Optional End of day food donation program for franchises to lessen food waste. Introduced in 2021.