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TIL IBM launched a touchscreen phone with apps in 1993

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OpA1 TIL when the Grateful Dead played “Playboy After Dark” in 1969, the band’s LSD supplier ‘Bear’ dosed the coffee urn that everyone on set was drinking from, including Hugh Hefner. Hefner later wrote a letter to Jerry Garcia thanking the band for the enjoyable experience.
R5Ygl TIL the 8-question Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) can cost researchers up to $100,000 to license.
8aLO4 TIL Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan because Stetson Kennedy wanted to expose the Klan after infiltrating them, the authorities weren't interested but the writers of Superman were willing to write it as a new plotline for Superman, which eventually caused the Klan's influence to fizzle out.
PGEO TIL in Track and Field women are about as good as 13-14 year old boys in most events.
YpEyG TIL that because the two major seafaring provinces of the Netherlands in its Golden Age were Holland and Zeeland, the Dutch explorers originally named the largest landmass of Oceania Nieuw Holland (now Australia) and the two islands to the southeast Nieuw Zeeland (now New Zealand)