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TIL when Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”

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Mpkm TIL of Texas Representative J.J. Pickle, whose campaign trademark was “a ‘squeaky pickle’ rubber toy he handed out to those he met in area parades”. He was re-elected 15 times.
R74d6 TIL Dr. Hans Asperger, who first identified what would become known as "Asperger’s syndrome", personally recommended some of his child patients to be transferred into the Nazi's "child euthanasia" programs, including one where at least 800 children were killed. He later worked for the Hitler Youth.
MepDa TIL In the early 1930s one of the measures enacted by Brazil to alleviate the economic impact from the great depression was "Quota do sacrifício" [or Quota of Sacrifice] where the government ordered farmers to collect all coffee, pile it up and light it on fire.
P1pYw TIL that the owners of Scottish brewery BrewDog, James Watt and Martin Dickie, were both sued by Elvis Presley’s Estate for selling a beer called “Elvis Juice”. They legally changed their names to ‘Elvis’ to prove it is not exclusive to one man. They subsequently won the case.
XEvmj TIL of Evolutionary Anachronism which are attributes that emerge from selection in the past due to coevolution with other biological species that have since become extinct. For example, avocado seeds are too large to be dispersed by any wild animal presently alive in the Americas