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TIL my grandfather’s cousin designed the legendary Apache 47

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kZo5 TIL that “Ukraine” roughly means “Borderlands”, and was referred to as “the Ukraine” during Soviet times, but no longer.
Wk0MB TIL that the suds of shampoo, soap and many other foaming products is often artifically added to the product to help convince us that it is working.
GY5DG TIL about the Oslo Breakfast, a meal that began to be served to Norwegian schoolchildren starting 1932. A typical version included an orange, milk, whole-wheat bread, rye biscuit, cheese, carrot and a spoon of cod-liver oil. It reportedly increased the average height of 14 year olds by 4 inches.
GAGE1 TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.
p8vZA TIL that 500 years ago, China destroyed its world-dominating navy because its political elite was afraid of free trade. Some vessels were 6x larger than Columbus' Santa Maria.