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TIL Texas Instruments has a near monopoly on the graphing calculator field, with over 90% of the sales. Due to this the base model specs and price have not changed in 10 years.

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6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
16k6r TIL that James Michael Tyler initially got the part of Gunther in Friends because he knew how to work a coffee machine and would look authentic when working in the background.
Mvla TIL Japanese people answer the phone by saying “moshi moshi” (to friends & family) because foxes cannot say it.
JJLj TIL A man named Barry Landau posed as a presidential historian for years, befriending multiple presidents including Clinton, before it was discovered he was a thief who’d been stuffing his custom-made jackets with priceless documents the entire time
7MPZ TIL that a secret soviet intelligence agent is primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. This might be responsible for saving the world.