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TIL Steve jobs tricked HP’s Carly Fiorina into allowing iTunes to becoming the prominent music player on PC’s while effectively banning her own music player until 2006.

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PDan TIL that in 2015 Boeing patented a plasma force field
YZGZ TIL that when CS Lewis went to an elite English boarding school in 1913, he found that homosexual relationships among students were “not [frowned upon as seriously as] wearing one’s coat unbuttoned.”
xQAg TIL the man who invented autopilot was also the founding member of the mile-high club.
Z8g8R TIL there is a show on TLC where people design wedding dresses made entirely out of toilet paper.
wLB8J TIL that Stevie Nicks wrote the Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams" in about 10 minutes. The rest of the band disliked the song, with Christine McVie calling it "boring." Nicks begged them to record it and they eventually relented. It is the band's only US number one single.