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TIL that the pinball game in Windows XP was developed by Maxis, the same company that created the SimCity and Sims series

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R5ola TIL that the term "use case" originated in software engineering and was popularized by Ivar Jacobson, a Swedish computer scientist, in the 1980s. The first known published use of the term "use case" was in Jacobson's 1992 book "Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach.”
DjPJ TIL Freddie Mercury was an Indian Parsi with the birth name Farrokh Bulsara
pYWG4 TIL that since Herbert Hoover became President of the US in 1929, 7 out of 16 (43.7%) presidents were left handers. The general rate for lefties in the US is 1 out of 10 (10%).
wLWG6 TIL of 6 suspected non-hijacked pilot suicides on commercial airlines: Japan Air Lines in 1982 (24 dead), SilkAir in 1997 (104 dead), EgyptAir in 1999 (217 dead), LAM Mozambique Airlines in 2013 (33 dead), Malaysia Airlines in 2014 (289 dead, plane not found), and Germanwings in 2015 (150 dead).
rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.