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TIL the layout of keys on a telephone keypad was based on research of sixteen possible alternatives performed at Bell labs in 1960

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N7eZ6 TIL that there is a massively popular children's TV character in Germany called Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread) who is a depressed loaf of bread whose catchphrases include "I would like to be left alone" and "My life is hell".
yQGjw TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
nWmN7 TIL National Geographic editor Bill Garrett was fired from the magazine in 1990 because he wanted to publish more controversial features that raised production costs and stories about AIDS, Exxon Valdez oil spill were published under his direction
vjgL TIL Most scholars accept the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran is a reference to Alexander the Great
m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.