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TIL Douglas Engelbart showed the world the first computer mouse in 1968 (and he never earned a penny from it)

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neXdd TIL that Jeannette Rankin was the first women voted into the United States congress, famously before US women were allowed the right to vote. As of today, she remains the only woman Montana has elected to Congress.
kOPvg TIL A group of guys made a to scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example.
rm11 TIL that the filming of The Godfather was disrupted by actual Mafia member Joe Colombo. Producer Al Ruddy met with him and reviewed the script, striking the word “Mafia” completely from the movie. Colombo and his pals also managed to elbow their way into casting and ended up as extras in the film.
neYpY TIL that Emma of Normandy married both Æthelred the Unready, the King of the English, and Cnut the Great, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard who overthrew Æthelred. Her sons by each, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, each became king of England.
bAeN TIL “Mele Kalikimaka,” the Hawaiian phrase for “Merry Christmas,” is actually just a phonetic attempt to say the English phrase using the palette of sounds available in the Hawaiian language.