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TIL that Steve Jobs was so good at applying his reality distortion field to convincing employees not to quit, that the original Macintosh motherboard designer planned to just walk into Steve's office and pee on his desk before he'd have the opportunity to convince him not to quit.

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oRvM7 TIL that between 1998 and 2015, the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments had reported $21 trillion in "unsupported adjustments". That is, $21 trillion missing in tax payer money; They cannot track it, nor do they know what it was spent on. That's 65,000 lost dollars per American.
y6xw TIL that angry New Hampshites tried to use eminent domain to build a hotel on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Souter’s childhood home, purely out of spite for his support of eminent domain.
x5v0 TIL Ikea uses 1% of the global wood supply.
ZM5p TIL I learned that the meaning of “abracadabra” is derived from Aramaic (ancient Hebrew) meaning “it is created as I speak it”.
9YykX TIL that one of the 7 ancient worldwonders, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, probably did not exist. Scientists have not found any evidence of its existence even today. It is now assumed that the gardens either stood somewhere else, or they were merely a myth of writers.