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TIL that Boeing used to use ferrets to carry wires to inaccessible places on aircraft

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P1AXw TIL that sidereal time is different from solar time, so in a typical "year" (ignoring leap year complications) where sun rises 365 times, the Earth has actually done 366 rotations around its axis
JYM54 TIL that the Babylonians created the 7 day week because there are 7 celestial bodies visible to the naked eye (The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn).
7rZyX TIL That, of 195 countries on earth, England has invaded 177 of them.
QJyKk TIL That refried beans are only fried once.
7LWx TIL Andy Warhol was shot and seriously wounded by a radical feminist, who spent only 3 years in prison for the crime.