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TIL that the first shipping container was invented and patented in 1956 by the owner of an American trucking fleet, which reduced his shipping cost from $5.86 to .16 cents, paving the way for globalisation and mass intercontinental shipping.

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4gm5 TIL that Scrooge McDuck “died” in 1967
neMeW Today I learned about Belka and Strelka, the first living creatures to go into space
Z8LaR TIL that Ed Camull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, had Aphantasia - a mental condition which meant he could not voluntarily visualize mental imagery. He had no visual imagination.
NkYM TIL that in 5,000 years of human history, only 2 diseases have been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest
d1nE TIL of the algae octopus which is sometimes described as “the only land octopus” because it will routinely crawl over exposed tidal beds to hunt in the scattered tidal pools