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TIL The first “iPhone” was actually released in 1998 by a company called Infogear, a good nine years before Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s iPhone. Infogear was subsequently acquired by Cisco which then got into a trademark battle with Apple in 2007 over the name. The two companies eventually settled.

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epA7k TIL: there is a travel agency that will help you go to Somalia called Mogadishu Adventure. They promise to take you to Liido Beach and the Black Hawk Down site. They provide a full security detail and you get to stay at the airport hotel which has never been infiltrated by El-Shabaab.
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.
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine
R7bgl TIL a coconut crab can grow up to 1m in length, actually cracks open coconuts with its claws, and can't swim.
DQOpg TIL that due to a bad hand cramp, Tina Weymouth was unable to play bass on the studio recording of the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". One of the studio engineers had to take her place.