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TIL Apple's first CEO was named Michael Scott

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Jgj TIL that a town in the UK, Berwick-upon-Tweed, was still technically at war with Russia until 1966 when a Russian diplomat and the Mayor signed a peace treaty. The Mayor told the diplomat: “You can tell the Russian people that they can now sleep peacefully in their beds”.
woJjY TIL Empress Augusta and Otto von Bismarck were such rivals after the Revolution of 1848 that Augusta wrote an 18-page memorandum to her husband warning him not to appoint Bismarck and Bismarck even accused her of being a traitor who handed state secrets to the French embassy.
OoDe TIL that North Korea hijacked a plane in 1967 and still hasn’t returned the passengers.
awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.
Z8dma TIL that the Moon always shows Earth the same face