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TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space

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gnny TIL that the producers of SIDEWAYS originally wanted Paul Giamatti’s Miles’ most cherished wine bottle to be a Petrus Merlot. Petrus’ estate owner declined, forcing a rewrite that included Miles’ most famous line: “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!”
Dm9Y TIL In WW2, US codebreakers could not decipher the Japanese code “AF” but suspected it was Midway, so the base there sent an uncoded message about a water supply problem. The US then caught a Japanese message that AF had water problems, allowing the US pacific fleet to immediately prepare for battle
R1l1 TIL that the color you see in total darkness is not black, but a dark gray called “eigengrau”.
9YwBD TIL of a city in Peru called Iquitos. It's the largest city in the world where you can't access by road. The only way to get there is by plane or boat.
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.