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TIL a college student emailed Steve Jobs complaining that Apple’s Media department were not replying to her emails for help with a school project. Jobs responded to her by saying “Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry” and “Please leave us alone.”

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YrKx TIL Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip are 3rd cousins, 2nd cousins and are the great-great grandkinds of Queen Victoria. Because of this, Phillip himself is in the line of succession to the throne though about 490 people would have to die for him to become King in his own right
d8y07 TIL Sperm whales are the loudest animals on earth. At 236 decibels, their click sounds can literally vibrate a human body to death. But when research divers approach them, the whales welcome them into their pod; while modulating their clicks so the divers aren't hurt.
G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.
kOJ64 TIL the use of triple parentheses, or triple brackets, also known as an (((echo))), is an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background.
l7YLN TIL After failing his entrance examinations at the University of Zurich, Einstein settled in Bern, where he wrote his post-doctoral thesis and published five works that changed the world view of physics forever