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TIL that Adobe doesn’t like when people use “Photoshop” as a verb. Instead of saying “That image was photoshopped,” they want you to say “The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.”

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1aRJW TIL the word “spam” used in reference to e-communications (commonly emails) comes from a 1972 Monty Python sketch in which two customers are lowered into a restaurant and everything on the menu contains spam. The connection is that no matter want you want, you can’t get away from the unwanted spam.
GAGyE TIL the 90's motivational book series "Chicken Soup for the Soul" owns the Redbox DVD rental kiosks
KYA16 TIL Every year Street Vision provides training in photography, documentary skills for over 30 young people living on streets. In 2005, 13 children from the beginners’ photography course graduated. All 13 found stable jobs with photo studios in the city
ovPr TIL in 2004, the German post office gave away 20 million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell nice.
x6bmD TIL that George Dantzig in 1939, misunderstanding as his Homework, solved two of the most famous unsolved problems in Statistics.