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TIL - Domino's Pizza has a Wedding Registry

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eN8k TIL Splenda’s sweet taste was discovered when a scientist who was told “test this chemical” misheard it as “taste this chemical”.
5VA8B [TIL] Hitler insisted his image was on postage stamps to earn royalties.
6Erw8 TIL in 1973 a Concorde aircraft prototype performed the longest observation of a total solar eclipse (74 minutes)
Yp05B TIL In 1493, Columbus mistook manatees for mermaids and wrote “they are not so beautiful as they are said to be, for their faces had some masculine traits.“
764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.