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TIL every Apple product in every promotional photo is set to 9:41 a.m. This is because when Jobs introduced the original iPhone at MacWorld 2007, he wanted the first image of the phone to show the actual time on the audience's watches. He did a practice run in 41 minutes, so the time was set to 9:41

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b6LZ9 TIL in Dec. 2018-2022, there were 4,759 people killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. In Dec. ‘22, young drivers ages 21-34 had the highest percentage (25%) of DUI fatalities. And Nighttime drunk driving was more dangerous than daytime driving, with 31% of fatalities between 6 pm - 5:59 am.
5VdJR TIL that the scientific definition of a Kilogram uses the Planck constant(which gives the relationship between energy/mass and frequency of a photon) in its formula. Pg131
GLQ1 TIL that cats do not have any naturally occurring antibodies against canine blood, which means that in life threatening situations it is possible to give a cat a blood transfusion using blood from a dog. But only once. The second time proves fatal.
ne4gr TIL that ‘The Shining’s’ Sally Duvall experienced a 'living hell" due to Kubrick’s direction, including making her to cry for 12 hours a day, forcing her to do the same emotional scene 127 times, and reaming her out for missing a cue.
XEoB6 TIL John Hathorne was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials never to apologize for his actions. His great-great grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a W to his last name to distance himself from him.