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TIL rapper Immortal Technique used to bully playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda in high school

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4xL5 TIL that It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, allegedly laced with cyanide to kill himself with. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”
v4LR TIL - “Wierd” Al Yankovic was Valedictorian of his senior class, where he also founded the Volcano Worshippers club, “which did absolutely nothing. We started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook.”
AeQ7 TIL that Finland is the fifth most happiest country according to the world happiness report
jNxOE TIL underwater basket weaving has been used as a pejorative term for excessively easy/useless/niche courses for at least the past 65 years
Kgp6 TIL that the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips anually to Canada in thanks for all the aid they provided in WWII