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TIL about the Windows XP wallpaper. The image is called "Bliss" and it's a supposedly unedited image of a hill found on the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area. The photographer, Charles O'Rear, says he took it on his way to visit his girlfriend. Eventually in 2000, he was contacted by Microsoft

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Br4AW TIL In 1946 Yoshio Tamiya started a sawmill and lumber company in Shizuok, Japan. With an ample supply of raw material available, Tamiya soon began producing wooden model ships, and by the early 1950s the company had transitioned its business solely to model making and it also has a model museum
R7mrl TIL that to deal with periods, “Until the turn of the 20th century, women simply bled into their clothes or, where they could afford it, shaped scraps of cloth or other absorbents like bark or hay into a pad or tampon-like object”
M7A6V TIL The crew of Apollo 13 used a 5-inch, metal slide rule, model "N600-ES" made by Pickett as a back up on-board computer. It was a model that was popular among engineers, scientists and students at the time
9no6 TIL that the United States led the world in forced sterilizations before Nazi Germany.