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TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years

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LQ50P TIL that the cover of The Doors’ 1970 album “Morrison Hotel” was taken at an actual Morrison Hotel in LA. The band was not given permission to photograph, so they did it while the clerk was away from the desk. The band jumped right behind the windows and hit their places without shuffling.
oBxJK TIL that while Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983, states were slow to accept the holiday. All 50 states didn't celebrate the holiday until 2000.
kOk6E TIL: When interviewed, a 70 year old man, who was once a feral child that lived alone with wolves in the mountains between the ages of 7 and 19 stated "he was disappointed in human nature and wished he could return to the mountains and leave society"
Olx1 TIL More than 30% of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were attributable to alcohol.
aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'