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TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2

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wLYPo TIL if all arteries, veins, and capillaries of the a person's circulatory system were laid end to end, not only would that person be dead, but their blood vessels could stretch around the Earth nearly two and a half times (60,000 miles/100,000 km).
VMgZD TIL Steve Jobs insisted on buying iOS engineer Steve Forstall lunch with his employee badge. When Forstall protested, Jobs replied 'No, no, no. This is great. I only get paid $1 a year. I don't know who's paying every time I badge.'
XxOR TIL, Prodigy, a first generation dial-up online service from the 1990s, is still in business and has 92% market share in Mexico.
XEBRX TIL Mark Foster of Foster the People conceived, wrote and recorded "Pumped Up Kicks" by himself in five hours. He had to force himself to do it instead of wasting time at the beach due to lack of inspiration
6eQm TIL that during Napoleons 6 day stay in Malta he; reformed national administration, created twelve municipalities, created a public finance administration, abolished all feudal privileges and slavery, framed a family code, nominated twelve judges and established public education.