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TIL : AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) is a visual art work by Finnish artist Juha van Ingen, consisting of a 1000-year long GIF animation loop which will automatically start over, after the last frame has played. ASLAP is intended to continue to play for ever.

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OovQ1 TIL that during the Second World War, it was found that British tank crews regularly left the safety of their tanks in order to make tea. Accordingly, post war British tanks have been fitted with internal tea-making facilities to enable tank crews to make tea in safety.
0dZg1 TIL that loganberries aren't a separate species of berry, but are a cross between blackberries and raspberries.
nemeB TIL former Ugandan president Idi Amin called himself: "His Excellency, President for Life... Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", in addition to his claim of being uncrowned King of Scotland.
mx9Gx TIL about Emma Willard, a women’s rights activist who dedicated her life to education and founded the first school for women’s higher education in 1821.
M7OM0 TIL in 1999 NASA lost a $125M Mars orbiter because of a calculation error. The mistake occurred because Lockheed Martin engineers used English (inch, ft) measurements in their calculations in contrast to NASA’s metric (cm, m) calculations.