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What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered? (pawb.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Interstellar_1@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ball jars are made by Newell Brands. Ball makes spaceships now instead

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago

Wow! I just looked at their wikipedia page, and that's really fascinating! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Corporation?oldformat=true

[–] EnglishExile@lemmy.hqueue.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, they don't do space anymore: https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/bae-systems-completes-acquisition-of-ball--aerospace

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

actually, i knew that too but admitting it would have ruined my fun fact...