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TIL Finns are Mongols from central Asia

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rN07d TIL that the video cameras used by the US AIR FORCE to build the first Mixed Reality system 33 years ago fell out of an airplane and smashed to the ground, but still worked!
7rXWO TIL when Audrey Geisel, the widow of Doctor Seuss, was selling the rights to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, she made sure that "any actor submitted for the Grinch must be of comparable stature to Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman."
Ypwgd TIL the Darien Scheme in 1698 was Scotland’s sole attempt at colonization. The effort failed but cost £400k (£71m inflation-adjusted) – about 20% of the nation’s capital. It crippled Scotland’s economy and was a major factor in its Act of Union with England in 1707, thus forming the United Kingdom.
RRbj TIL: NASA sent pics of Playboy Playmates to the moon.
AE9d TIL there is a species of fungus called “Spongiforma squarepantsii” named after the character “SpongeBob SquarePants”