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TIL An officially recommended solution to a common problem with the Apple 3 was to “lift the computer two inches and drop it”

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69V8X TIL Tony Scott, director of the original 'Top Gun,' jumped to his death from a bridge in California in 2012, with his brother, famed director Ridley Scott, revealing Tony had been fighting cancer. However, a subsequent autopsy revealed that there was no trace of cancer in his system.
XEOGk TIL that there's a sea slug that can photosynthesize, called Elysia chlorotica. It gets its chloroplasts from eating algae.
ZreG TIL many Silicon Valley millionaires fear an impending societal breakdown, and have started buying houses in New Zealand to prepare for the apocalypse
oRZB8 TIL there are 4 species of giraffe and within the species, giraffes can also have a genetic condition called leucism which is a partial loss of pigmentation making them appear white with spots
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.