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TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.

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jNEPp TIL that Royal Navy Submarines will, to this day, fly the Jolly Roger when returning to port. This is in response to an Admiral declaring that submarines were “underhanded, unfair and damned un-English” and all submariners should be “hung as pirates”
Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation
gwa8 TIL that Steve Jobs contracted a form of cancer that was slow growing and most likely to be cured, and the reason he didn’t survive was because he chose to hold off surgery for 9 months in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices
EoW TIL the phrase “my bad” was first popularized by Manute Bol, who was still learning English at the time
9RJm TIL As an experiment, a copy of Casablanca’s screenplay was submitted to 217 agencies under the title “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”. Out of the 85 that read it, only 8 recognized it specifically as Casablanca, and only 3 declared it as commercially viable.