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TIL Laser Tag was actually military combat training before it was commercial recreation

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b6m4p TIL there’s a dinosaur named Qantassaurus, named in honour of the Australian airline Qantas. This was after Qantas shipped the Great Russian Dinosaurs Exhibit, the largest ever travelling dinosaur exhibit, across the world in the 1990s.
QNrBE Today I learned about swing Band Leader Ivy Benson who was as famous in the 1940s as Glenn Miller, yet her name has not lived on in the public consciousness.
oR49L TIL the opening notes from the Mission Impossible theme song are Morse Code for "MI". BAH BAH (two dashes, M) da da (two dots, I)
BgBxd TIL 'America' was first used to for South America, named for Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
OGMKL TIL that in Italy it’s considered rude to pour wine by gripping the body of the bottle, palm up. It’s called “the traitor’s way” because it’s how people in 15-16th centuries would covertly slip poison into the wine from a signet “poison ring”. The correct way is to hold the very end of the bottle.