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TIL - Domino's Pizza has a Wedding Registry
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TIL Splenda’s sweet taste was discovered when a scientist who was told “test this chemical” misheard it as “taste this chemical”.
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[TIL] Hitler insisted his image was on postage stamps to earn royalties.
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TIL in 1973 a Concorde aircraft prototype performed the longest observation of a total solar eclipse (74 minutes)
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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.“
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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.