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TIL The Unicode Consortium allows you to "adopt a character" as a way to support the foundation

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aRm0 TIL Steve Jobs wanted to hide a man wearing a fedora in the first Mac. Dubbed “Mr. Macintosh,” the character would appear after opening the menu bar several thousand times then quickly disappear, leaving users to question their sanity. The idea was scrapped due to the Mac’s paltry 128KB of RAM.
PYAPe TIL that British and American commanders ensured the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was a "Whites Only" victory. Most of Charles De Gaulle's Free French Army were African colonial soldiers who fought valiantly to liberate Paris but were stripped of uniform, sent home and denied pensions.
xZPB TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov’t didn’t burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn’t want to be offended
6EdGQ TIL Mrs. Doubtfire was attributed for saving a woman's life after a young girl remembered the Heimlich maneuver famously performed by Robin Williams in the film and helped prevent her mother from choking in the kitchen.
6EyJZ TIL despite his success as a musician, Harry Chaplin left little money when he died. His widow was reportedly quoted saying with only with slight exaggeration that "Harry was supporting 17 relatives, 14 associations, 7 foundations & 82 charities. He always said, 'Money is for people.'