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TIL Minesweeper and Solitaire were added to Windows back in the 3.1 days, to train mouse discipline without the users even realizing they were learning. Solitaire was added to teach users how to Drag and Drop, Minesweeper taught using the right/left mouse buttons and mouse precision/control

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v1WMD TIL unlike in the movie Die Hard, the escape hatch on an elevator can't be opened from the inside; by law, it's bolted shut from the outside. It’s there so that emergency personnel can get in, not so passengers can get out. If an elevator is in trouble, the safest place to be is inside the elevator.
nOk7 TIL The world’s first motion picture screening was held in December 1895. Within one year the earliest pornographic movie Le Coucher de la Mariée was released
M7QnB TIL most modern chewing gum is made with Butyl (polyisobutylene), an oil derived synthetic rubber which is also used in tires and innertubes, and is then mixed with food grade plasticizers (also oil derived), and a few other materials.
neVeB TIL Steven Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day invasion scene in "Saving Private Ryan" in order to make things more chaotic and unpredictable. In the original script, the entire invasion is covered in only seven pages.
MQlB TIL that a Massachusetts man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder, was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school to prove his innocence. 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.