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TIL about Finger Binary. A method to count up to 31 on one hand and up to 1024 on two hands

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6EVDm TIL that 844 people died aboard the SS Eastland because it had too MANY lifeboats. After the Titanic disaster, Congress passed laws requiring more lifeboats. This made the SS Eastland too top-heavy, and in 1915, it capsized before even leaving the dock.
d8wXr TIL the color used for cigarette packaging in Australia is called "Pantone 448 C", it was chosen after researchers determined that it is the "world's least attractive color."
nWNjo TIL The Young Ones had a 5th "ghostly" roommate
E1bpW TIL about Project Retro, an idea proposed by the US Air Force around the 1960's that called for a thousand rocket engines to be strapped to the equator of Earth which would allow the US to slow/stop the rotation of the planet in an effort to "dodge" Soviet ICBMs.
4bwb TIL televangelist Pat Robertson diverted charitable donations meant to aid post genocide Rawanda to fund the operation of blood diamond mines.