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TIL Popcorn icon Orville Redenbacher Died By Drowning in A Hot Tub

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YlyW TIL in 1926, Agatha Christie vanished without a trace. Thousands of volunteers helped search, along with planes in the sky, and dogs on the ground. After 11 days, a musician recognized her at a hotel, where she was living under a fake name. Christie died without ever having explained her absence.
78oXb TIL that Americans actually started using the dating system (mm/dd/yyyy) from the UK who used it before the 20th century.
JYExk TIL Insulated glass (critical for modern skyscraper construction) was patented in 1865 but didn’t see commercialization for 60 years; and finally trademarked as Thermopane in 1941.
9Y5GQ TIL the president and vice-president can't be from the same state.
4X9Bo TIL of the Mother of All demos given by Doug Engelbart. The demo talked about all the possibilities of modern computing. A year later the first link on what would be the internet connected UCLA and Stanford.