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TIL that a QR code on a Heinz ketchup bottle once took people to a porn site.

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7ARp TIL that the deepest Freedive (no air and no fins) is 106 metres deep, which is 66 metres deeper than the maximum allowed depth for recreational scubadiving (with air).
6ExgY TIL that each space shuttle was named after historical and influential ships of science and exploration
j6GxM TIL about the Great British Dog and Cat Massacre of 1939. In which Londoners, to prepare for war with Nazi Germany, voluntarily killed over 400,000 of their home pets in a one month period so as to ease the strain on resources. The deaths were found to be mostly unnecessary.
8eNWK TIL that in January 2023 the F-35 fighter aircraft still had 821 remaining problems. which is an improvement to the 826 problems it had April 2022. (page 73)
LwLm TIL that the reason for Yogi Bear’s collar is that it allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke — a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000