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TIL that the Mars Climate Orbiter, a 1998 NASA mission attempting to launch two probes in the Mars atmosphere, failed because the landing data were calculated using the imperial system, but the navigation team expected them to be written in the metric system. 328 millions dollars lost.
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TIL Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, empowered his imperial princes because he blamed the weakening of imperial princes for the preceding Wei Dynasty’s fall. Ironically, this led to the destabilization of his own dynasty and forced their retreat south of the Huai river
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TIL the reason milk is sold in bags throughout eastern Canada is linked to the countries transition to the metric system. Dairy producers, faced with having to replace and resize existing milk containers (measured in imperial quarts), found the use of bags to be a cheaper and quicker alternative
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TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.
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