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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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d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
wLMGE TIL Lenny McLean, who played “Barry the Baptist” in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, was diagnosed with lung cancer while filming and died shortly before the movie’s release (age 49). In response Guy Ritchie had billboards changed to feature McLean and dedicated the film to him.
vQM8 TIL that without the composer’s knowledge, Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the original Star Trek theme in order to claim a 50% share of the music’s performance royalties
QJklp TIL in Jewish mythology, everyone has an angel teaches them all the wisdom in the world in utero. The angel lightly taps an infant's upper lip before birth, to silence the infant from spilling the secrets. Some say that's how we have the philtrum (the indent between the nose and mouth).
b99l0 TIL More gunpowder was used in an area of Manhattan to make Central Park than was used at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.