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

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R7k4j TIL the Folsom Prison Blues line "But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" was what Johnny Cash imagined as "the worst reason a person could have for killing another person".
pY4dQ TIL: In 2008, Doritos held a competition to create a commercial to send to space. They sent "tribe" - where escaped Doritos worship a salsa jar (possible chip sacrifice involved) to Ursa Major for 6 hours using a space station in the Arctic Circle. 61% of those surveyed thought "its a start"
0dwWj TIL that French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovered Bouvet Island in 1739 but then mislabelled the coordinates, causing it to be lost until it's rediscovery 8 decades later in 1808.
DQEwg TIL casino mogul Steve Wynn gave up attending Yale Law School due to his father's gambling debt.
4XlBR TIL most of the Federalist Papers (51 out of 85) that defended the the United States Constitution and lead to its ratification were written by Alexander Hamilton when he was 30 year old. He was also one of the five members of the committee that made the final draft of the original constitution.