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TIL that NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft due to the lack of conversion of some data to metric system.

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nWrbG TIL cleaning paintings to conserve or restore them frequently destroys the original artwork - including works by Michaelangelo and Da Vinci
rRroe TIL dogs have 10x to 20x faster reaction times than humans.
X07Y6 TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days
e06bb TIL the Founder of Kodak, George Eastman, insisted the company use a 13 month, 28 day per month calendar. This system would be used by Kodak as the official date system from 1928 to 1989.
pY7ZG TIL that in 1902, the city of Saint-Pierre in Martinique had a population of 28,000. After a volcanic eruption engulfed the city in a pyroclastic flow in April of that year, only 3 survived.