Post * JOlB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Microsoft included Solitaire in Windows, in part, to familiarize people with drag and drop operations. In 1990, many users were still unfamiliar with graphical user interfaces.

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m1Ydp TIL Tom Seaver was named on 425 out of 430 ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. 3 were blank as a protest against Pete Rose being ineligible. One was sent by a writer recovering from surgery who did not notice Seaver's name and one never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility.

VMRL4 TIL the first person to stream their life on the internet was Jennifer Ringley aka Jennicam, a 19 year old woman who from 1996, broadcasted her life from her college dorm room 24/7. At its peak, she got 7 million hits per day, a significant proportion of the internet at the time.

QJaAX TIL there actually is something like a 'fat gene' for women. 1 in 10 women suffer from Pcos, an illness that can make you insulin resistant. It can also cause mental health issues and difficulty getting pregnant. Many women affected by Pcos don't even know they have it. There is no official cure.

LQ6wV TIL Keyboard instrument already exist since the third century BC. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria.

oga8 TIL Cliché comes from the sound made when plates with commonly used words or phrases were fitted into a printing press. These plates were called stereotypes.