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TIL That the Pokémon Koffing and Weezing Were Originally Named NY and LA

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kQn5 TIL Ron Howard directed his first feature film for Roger Corman, famous for squeezing production budgets. Years later on Apollo 13 he cast Corman as a senator who complains about the high cost of moon missions.
kJo0g TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, which was once native to the US and went extinct in the 1910s. It lived as far north as New York and Wisconsin and as far west as Colorado
QKRa TIL that if your BIOS was made by Award/Unicore after 1997, there’s a good chance that it’s set to make the PC speaker play either Beethoven’s “Für Elise” or "It’s a Small World (after all)” if the CPU fan fails.
J14 TIL Apple makes its employees work on dummy projects until they can be trusted.
yQ6Ka TIL the elite schools of the Aztec Empire, where you studied subjects such as medicine, astronomy, engineering, theology, and law were called "Houses of Tears" due to incredibly high standards and chores placed on students