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TIL So much cow intestines were used in the production of German zeppelins that sausages were banned

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R7J14 TIL: American cheeses have that distinctive orange color because producers dye it with a natural food additive, Annatto. The color was once considered to indicate higher quality cow diet and superior quality cheese.
kOLEW TIL that Nokia has existed since 1865. They started as a papermill and even produced toilet at one stage. The original toilet paper is still on display in a museum in Finland.
mxZ0Y TIL that an average-sized cat with its limbs extended achieves a terminal velocity of about 60mph (97km/h), while an average-sized man reaches a terminal velocity of about 120mph (193km/h). This is why cats can survive falls from such great heights.
p8ENO TIL that Beate Uhse, before opening the 1st sex shop world wide, was a pilot in a German aircraft ferrying unit during WW2, flying, while occasionally being under attack, Stuka, Me 109 and even Me 262. April '45 she flew her son and his nanny on her own out of Soviet encircled Berlin to the west.
wokJ6 TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station.