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TIL that Nicorette was created in Sweden for submariners who couldn’t smoke on board

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XnBR TIL the famous Blue Marble photograph was originally oriented with the south pole at the top but was reoriented to fit the more traditional view of north-up.
xVEoB TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.
OoyRR TIL that the world's oldest living drag queen is Darcelle XV who at age 88 is still performing at her namesake club that she founded in 1967 in Portland, Oregon.
GYdLQ TIL the main cause of "soft errors" in computer memory is cosmic rays. Systems buried in caves have a negligible rate of cosmic-ray induced soft errors; computers on mountains have a far higher error rate than at sea level; and the rate of errors in aircraft can be over 300 times the sea level rate
R71Qa TIL the 2013 NASA Astronaut class, which had 4 men and 4 women, is nicknamed the "8-balls"