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TIL Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac in 1985, more than 2 years before releasing it on Windows

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x6j4D TIL SOME Caucasian people can't tell Asian accents apart (vice versa). I didn't realise it went both ways! I have always been able to tell Asian accents apart, from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filo, Indonesia and Viet. Today my Australian friend told me this and I said we have the same issues with
yVZ8v TIL that sharks do not produce sounds. Out of the 400-500 species, no organ capable of producing sound has ever been found.
4XMEJ TIL of Franceska Mann, a Jewish ballerina who was sent to Auschwitz. She reportedly stripped down to nothing but high heels outside of a gas chamber, then stabbed an SS guard in the eye with a heel, grabbed his pistol, shot and killed another SS guard, and wounded a third.
KYJ76 TIL The inventor of Science Fiction was a man born in the Second Century AD.
kJ5pg TIL of Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as Tooth-in-Eye surgery, was first developed in the 1960s. This procedure involves implanting a tooth into a blind person’s eye to help restore their sight and continues to be performed today.