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TIL the first design of the iPhone was made back as far as 1983, which looks more like the iPad, but with an actual phone attached.

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1aEPD TIL that the source tune for the American National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, came from an 18th century drinking song called "To Anacreon In Heaven."
6EV5Q TIL of an 21-year-old African Grey Parrot named Waldo, who is the lead singer of the death metal band 'Hatebeak'.
1anP TIL Coconut juice – or water inside – not only is sterile, but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood, which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma.
j6NEQ TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.
g49A TIL that serial killer Javed Iqbal was sentenced to death by being strangled in front of his victims family’s, dismembered and then burned in a vat of acid, in the same way he killed over 100 16 year old boys. He was found dead in his cell before the execution could be carried out.