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PYp8Z TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman did not want his children to be "trust fund babies" so he did not create a trust. This resulted in a $12 million estate tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust fund.
mkGY TIL Steve Jobs ate at his biological father’s restaurant, who years later boasted to Mona Simpson (Steve’s sister) about it, having no idea that Steve was his son.
6E1RY TIL the origin of Backslash in MS Windows. Unix introduced in '70 the forward slash as its directory separator. In '81 MS-DOS 1.0 didn’t support directories at all and already were using "/" as switch operator, hence the DOS 2 had to chose the "\" as the only viable to keep compatibility.
XKdr TIL the FBI kept a file on Louis Armstrong for his outspokenness about integration.
a8V6b TIL that only Nintendo's founder knows what their name means.