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TIL the official name for Clippy (Microsoft’s office assistant) is actually Clippit

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eVmD TIL reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes was being kept awake at night by the bright neon sign from the ‘Silver Slipper’ casino, so he bought the casino and dismantled the sign.
nQdb TIL Cashews are deadly poisonous before roasting and are hard to harvest because their shells are poisonous to the touch
8eBJb TIL that Dolphins use coral as medicine. Researchers observe that dolphins in a pod in the Red Sea regularly rub against certain corals and sponges, perhaps to sooth their skin by prompting the invertebrates to release mucus that contains antimicrobial compounds.
JQDv TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven” was rejected by one magazine and was eventually sold for $9. The poem became immediately successful and reprinted in prominent periodicals without any financial gain to Poe.
RDOa TIL that after the first iPhone was unveiled in 2007, Google engineers were forced to start all over on a secret smartphone they had spent two years working on.