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TIL Steve Jobs was hired to build the first prototype of “Breakout” for Atari. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak promising to give him half of the $750 pay. The pair stayed up four days straight to finish the game and were given a bonus because of this. Jobs kept the entire bonus for himself.

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Y7OPr TIL that there are two sequels to the novel “Little Women”; the first is called “Little Men”, and the second is called “Jo’s Boys”. Both novels focus on the two sons of the character of Jo from “Little Women”.
OjX TIL James May was fired from Autocar magazine for inserting a hidden message into one issue
4Xakb TIL there was a planned military coup at the end of the US Revolutionary War
QWVp TIL that in 1958 the U.S. Air Force lost a 7,600 lb hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia. It’s still there.
Me0lB TIL the B-52 Stratofortress is plannned to stay in service until at least 2050, nearly 100 years after it entered service in 1955. It will be theoretically possible for a B-52 pilot in the 2040’s to pilot the same plane their great grandfather flew.