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TIL Samoa switch from driving on the right, to driving on the left in 2009

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LvNZ TIL that “Pocari Sweat”, a Japanese soft/sports drink, will be the first commercial product advertised on the Moon following a capsule launch planned in October 2015.
LkA6P TIL that the 2000 hit "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men was a cover of a '98 song "Doggies" by Anslem Douglas, which was informed by a '94 techno hit by Twenty Fingers, which was taken from a '92 hit by Miami Boom, which likely was inspired by a '86 TX highschool football chant
O7R7 TIL Researchers at MIT have created a camera with a resolution of one frame per trillionth of a second, allowing them to film light as it travels.
YOKx TIL a company that sells tv antennas sent Comcast a cake to congratulate them on being named worst company in America
gMQNL TIL precolonial Mesoamerican maps depicted both geographic features AND its history using logographs showing what an area was (i.e. a hill) and what happened there (i.e. glyphs for battles etc). As it told their stories, Native city-states used their city-maps as state symbols, akin to modern flags