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TIL that McIntosh is actually a variety of apple. And, the name Macintosh was inspired from the same.

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mQYx TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
nWGXo TIL The Prohibition Party, who advocated for the banning of alcohol in the 1920s, is still active, making them the oldest active third party in American history.
y1DJ TIL that SEGA started as an American company called Service Games which provided leisure time activities on military bases during WWII
JYgkk TIL that Chichen Itza was constructed so that on the spring and autumn equinox it creates the image of a snake slithering down the pyramid to honor the Mayan deity Kukulan, the Feathered Serpent.
wZEJ TIL it’s possible to replace a lost thumb with a toe, and that the first successful toe-to-thumb transplant was performed in 1964, on a rhesus monkey (first human was 1972)