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TIL They use helicopters to inspect high transmission power lines

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VMLGB TIL every Apple product in every promotional photo is set to 9:41 a.m. This is because when Jobs introduced the original iPhone at MacWorld 2007, he wanted the first image of the phone to show the actual time on the audience's watches. He did a practice run in 41 minutes, so the time was set to 9:41
07oj TIL that during WW II the 603rd unit was designated as Camouflage Engineers. Many of the soldiers were recruited from arts schools and set designers. Their objective was not only to teach camouflage, but to deceive the enemy through the art of design. They became known as the Ghost Army
OMGg TIL The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war in US history.
4XZ46 TIL that there is a concept opposite to déjà vu called jamais vu, wherein familiar concepts or situations become seemingly unfamiliar. An example of which is when words sound like jibberish after saying or writing them enough times.
mxnWM TIL there are more captive tigers in the US than wild ones in the rest of the world. There are as many as 7,000 tigers living in the US either in zoos or privately owned, according to some estimates. That's nearly double the estimated 3,890 tigers still prowling in the wild around the world.