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TIL Steve Jobs had a tendency to drive without a license plate and park in handicap spaces.

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pwVe TIL The Secret Service was created by Abraham Lincoln the day he was Assassinated
W7r9A TIL that in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment includes a self-portrait where St. Bartholomew holds Michelangelo's flayed skin. Michelangelo resented being commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, as he considered himself primarily to be a sculptor, not a painter, and included this as a protest.
OPY1 TIL when Washoe, first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker’s baby had died, she signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears)
v1Ly8 TIL The Boeing 747 airframe is designed to carry an extra engine called the "5th Pod Ferrying System" for delivering engines to other 747 aircraft on short notice.
OG6l4 TIL that koi fish were domesticated from carp fish in fourth century BCE China.