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TIL Microsoft Solitaire was added to Windows to familiarize new users with the mouse.

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Z8Odp TIL Arctic Shrews are solitary animals. One study showed that if you place two shrews in the same cage, one will be dead within days, even without showing any signs of injury
QY5p TIL When recording “That’s life”, the scowl in Sinatra’s voice was a result of the producer telling Sinatra, after the recording session, to get out of his car and back in the studio to re-record the vocal. This made Frank very angry, shown in the song, creating the exact feel they wanted.
NaZJ TIL Elvis wore a cross, a star of David and the Hebrew letter chai. He said: “I don’t want to miss out on heaven due to a technicality”
VBvVQ TIL that there are over 200 Hotel Bristols in the world. They’re not part of a franchise, but rather named for the 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803) who was a famed traveller around Europe and a connoisseur of luxury
xxd7 TIL that of 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls’ high school athletics