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TIL: The Windows 10 default desktop image is actually a photograph and not CGI

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e8a6 TIL that ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0, a word processor application that was released in the mid-80s and runs on DOS to write all his novels.
nrZW TIL that when the Skylab satellite crashed in Australia in 1979, Australia issued the US a fine for littering. NASA didn’t pay the fine.
m15Dx TIL that one can work as a fortune cookie 🥠 writer and make $82K per year.
mxX4p TIL married men make 10 to 20% more money on average than men who choose to stay single their entire lives.
1aW77 TIL the Iroquois Theater in Chicago was billed as "Absolutely Fireproof" in advertisements when it opened. It lasted 37 days before being destroyed in what is still the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history, leaving 602 dead and 250 injured.