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TIL: Super Bowl referees also receive Super Bowl rings.

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b9b1j TIL On August 10, 1519, the Spanish expedition departed from Sevilla in search of the Spice Islands. This voyage resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth. The expedition was composed by 5 ships: Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago, under Ferdinand Magellan's command.
loYOV TIL that when we find out a presumed meteorite turns out to just be a normal rock, they are called "Meteorwrongs"
a8WV9 TIL that Orson Welles met with Walt Disney about making an animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince together. Welles' pitch captivated Disney's animators so much that Walt became indignant. He declared to an associate, "There is not room on this lot for two geniuses!"
VML9Q TIL Dennis Richie, who along with Ken Thompson, created the C programming language in the 60s, the most influential language in history, as well as Unix (THE operating system behind MacOS and Linux), died a week after Steve Jobs in 2011. His death was ignored due to media coverage of Jobs' death.
7gxX TIL That most of Steve Jobs’ wealth was from his shares in Disney, not Apple.