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TIL Bill Atkinson, an early engineer working on the OG Macintosh at Apple, developed the "double click"

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YpPQv TIL that the Soviet Union built chemical, nuclear, and biological defences into its T55 battle tank. This would allow the crew to survive nuclear fallout if required.
d548 TIL in the US being clean shaven became popular after troops returned as heroes from WWI–they had been required to shave so gas masks would securely fit.
nGW TIL that you spend 40 minutes of each day blind
VPrk TIL Pedro A. Lopez, the prolific serial killer of more than 100 children, was released in 1998 on $50 bail. Nobody knows where he is today.
KYwOQ TIL there’s a 7-story rock in a desert near Joshua Tree in California that 1) is maybe the largest freestanding boulder in the world, 2) once had a 24ft by 36ft apartment dug underneath it, and 3) hosted 20 years of Flying Saucer Conventions starting in the 1950s