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TIL Steve Jobs threw such a tantrum when he was given the employee number 2 that he even cried. He also was so hellbent in be before Steve Wozniak that he then demanded to be Employee #0.

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awrW0 TIL that all astronauts have to learn Russian as all the crews are delivered to the International Space Station by a Russian Ship.
n7Qo TIL that the longbow was such an effective medieval weapon that the Duke of Wellington wanted to use a corps of longbowmen at the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815
Alko TIL the heroin Sid Vicious overdosed and died from was bought by his mother after he had gotten clean
QJ4LX TIL Fifty years ago, 5 unmanned lunar orbiters circled the moon, taking extremely high resolution photos of the surface that if you printed it would fit a billboard without losing any quality.
d88Nj TIL: Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, stopped in 1998 after the director of the movie “Burn Hollywood Burn” (a film about a fictional director actually named Alan Smithee trying to disown his movie) used the pseudonym himself.