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TIL that NASA often shows the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and then asks its new staff to identify as many scientific inaccuracies as they can. There are at least 168 of them

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6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
OodM1 TIL when France increased the price of cigarettes by 66% over an eight-year period, the smoking rate among French executives and professionals declined. However, the smoking rate among manual laborers remained about the same and among the unemployed, it increased.
rRRDM TIL that manufacturing is cheaper in China because of subsidies - energy, land and raw material subsidies, low cost loans at both state and federal levels and not because of low labor costs or scale (SEA and SA are cheaper)
n1lY TIL the last surviving Civil War veteran lived long enough to have seen television.
E1Erd TIL that when cable was introduced it was advertised as having no commercials due to being a paying service.