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TIL: Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a bored summer intern named Wes Cherry. He received no royalties for his work despite it being among the most used Windows applications of all time.

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QJVjM TIL On March 12 1951 two separate comic strips entitled Dennis the Menace debuted, one in the UK and the other in the USA
0dJay TIL about the Battle of Wizna, where between 350 and 900 Poles defended Wizna from 41,000 German Infantry for three days before being defeated.
gMO99 TIL the distinct smell after it rains is called petrichor and it is caused by bacteria called actinomycetes.
awQ6M TIL a computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts 2020 to be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
awb60 TIL that prior to 158 years ago in the West, babies were born and assigned the age 1 at birth. This was because scholars thought the number 0 was connected to a void which was connected to Satan, therefore not giving babies a year “0” at birth.