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TIL that Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.

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OoYyX TIL of Dr. William Moon—a one-eyed man who developed his own reading system for the blind in the 1840s after finding other methods unreliable. He called his method “Moon Code” and based it off of simplified Roman letters, which allowed almost anyone to learn it extremely quickly.
VBLbm TIL most bad weather comes from a western direction
awBBZ TIL Douglas Tompkins, founder of The North Face Company, purchased and conserved over 2 million acres of land in Chile and Argentina, becoming one of world’s largest private land owners
69AeZ TIL pyridoxine chloride, the inactive form of vitamin B6 that’s found in most supplements, can actually lead to decreased vitamin B6 functionality
l8A7 TIL that 14-year-old Kurt Cobain announced to a schoolmate that he’d be a superstar musician, get rich and famous, kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix