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TIL that to make sure that Windows 95 was compatible with older products, Microsoft bought one copy of every PC program sold at the local Egghead Software store

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KYlQw TIL Josef Mangele aka The Angel of Death, who was the chief Nazi Dr at Auschwitz, died of old age in Brazil in 1979
OQA6 TIL that Martine Rothblatt made millions by inventing satellite radio. When her daughter was diagnosed w/ pulmonary hypertension, she earned a PhD in bioethics & formed a biotech company that licensed drugs to treat her daughter’s illness from other companies, making them much more widely available
ke67 TIL Melanie Griffith was nicknamed Brainiac in 1992, because she didn’t know Germans had “done bad things” to Jews during World War II until working on the set of Shining Through. She was 34.
6EBv7 TIL: Honey Bees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building, literally
kOQK5 TIL that in 2008 (before iOS and Android had released their app stores), there were more than 50,000 third-party apps available for Palm OS - including open-source, freeware, shareware, and paid apps