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TIL Northwest Airways saved about $500,000 a year by slicing limes into sixteen slices rather than 10.

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6Eg8Z TIL Richard Nixon had the Secret Service uniform redesigned to closely resemble that of European palace guards. The "toy soldier" uniforms were universally ridiculed and only used for a few months before being mothballed; after a decade in storage they were sold to an Iowa high school marching band
BgnOk TIL a Boeing chief test pilot improvised a barrel roll in new, untested 707 prototype during a public event. When his boss asked him what he thought he was doing rolling the plane, he replied, “I’m selling airplanes.”
9klX TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the highest grossing film actor of all time
MenBa TIL About the Residence Time concept, which is the average time a water molecule spends in a given water reservoir.
rROnd TIL a slave from Mozambique called Yasuke was the first black samurai in the history of Japan