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TIL that Nokia has been in business since 1865.

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1anwX TIL about Anton Syndrome where some people become blind but deny their blindness. Patients with Anton Syndrome are often found describing people or surroundings that are not present or walking into objects though the patient will continue to deny that they can't see even when presented with evidence
x68G1 TIL that there exists real footage of one of the most unethical psychological experiments. Its the conformity experiment from Stanley Milgram and was conducted after the atrocities of WW2. It shows a real participant truly believing that he's conforming to killing another subject.
OoBo6 TIL the McRib is sold year round at McDonald's in Germany and has been a permanent menu item since 1985
4XWRN TIL there was a mission to launch an ISRO astronaut, in one of the NASA Space shuttles in 1986, which got cancelled following the challenges disaster.
N78JQ TIL that in 2015, the US Air Force wanted to scrap the A-10, and Chuck Norris wrote a column praising it. In 2019, most of the fleet got new wings, enabling them to stay in service until late 2030s.