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TIL that in 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button

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nerZ9 TIL about Utsuro-Buno, a Japanese legend about an unknown object washing ashore in Hitachi in1803. Inside there was a young woman who spoke an unknown language and who was carrying a small box which she didn't let anyone touch.
DANJ TIL: In 1946, the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100,000,000 but Denmark did not agree to sell.
oBvxE TIL: If you boil a can of sweetened condensed milk for 3 hours it turns into Caramel.
BVDk TIL in 2012, a petition was created urging the U.S. government to create a Death Star, which gained more than 25,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response.
BBLL TIL Ancient Egyptians are credited with having the first idea of air condition, where they hung reeds from windows, and moistened them with trickling water. The evaporation of the water brought cool air in through the window.