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TIL: The famous Windows “3d pipes screensaver” contains hidden Teapots as pipe joints. It was used as an inside joke & reference to the “Utah Teapot”. A standard reference object throughout the computer graphics industry.

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Wlo4 TIL that the first confirmed “high five” was between LA Dodger teammates Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke on Oct 2, 1977. After Baker hit his 30th homerun of season, Burke met him at home plate with his hand held high over his head and Baker smacked it, later saying “It seemed like the thing to do.”
1avNW TIL that Warner Bros. allowed Bugs Bunny to appear in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' under the stipulation that he only appear opposite Mickey Mouse, and that the two receive the same amount of screen time. The resulting scene is the only time in film history that the two have shared the screen together
4XY0a TIL that Mattel makes a bald Barbie doll named Ella to give (free of charge) to kids with cancer. It comes with wigs and other accessories.
LdNZ TIL that on 18 May 1990, Jim Swire, who’s daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.
Me6ba TIL the Ancient Greek author Diodorus Siculus wrote that the people of Spain's Balearic Islands loved to be naked & loved women. The Greeks called the islands Gymnesiae meaning naked (γυμνοί) & legend states the the inhabitants would give 3 or 4 men as ransom for 1 woman.