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TIL Cold War defense computers had ashtrays

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x6pM1 TIL that the founder of “Famous Amos cookies”, Wally Amos, was also the first African American talent agent at the William Morris Agency. He would send prospective clients a batch of cookies and an invitation to talk. This would lead to his clients giving him a loan to create Famous Amos cookies.
0dpo5 TIL in 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17,000ft, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. He survived.
7r0aL TIL the idea for In-N-Out signature crossed palms came from the 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, in which there’s a search for a buried treasure that’s hidden beneath four crossed palm trees.
9YxXG TIL Due to North Carolinian farmers switching from growing tobacco and cotton to growing soybeans and corn, Black Bears of the area are getting fat from all the extra food sources.
eR54 TIL that in 2008 the NHL banned Detroit Zamboni drivers from twirling octopuses over their heads. The ban was later relaxed to allow for some twirling.