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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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WKM4 TIL that the Weezer song “Mykel & Carli”, released in 1994, is about sisters Mykel and Carli Allan who established the band’s fan club and are considered the band’s biggest fans. Mykel and Carli, and younger sister Trisha, died in a car accident in 1997; members of Weezer attended their funeral.
ZlbG TIL that prostitution was widely legal in the United States up until the early 1900’s, when the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union lobbied against it. This was the same union that was a driving force behind Prohibition in the 1920’s.
8a4Wa TIL about the Yellow Fleet, cargo ships which were stuck in the Great Bitter Lake for 8 years.
yMZe TIL A professor is able to predict with 91% accuracy if a married couple will stay together based on the number of positive comments they make to negative ones. Couples with a 5:1 ratio tend to stay together.
PYeeL TIL that the rumor Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped after "ingesting" too much semen, was spread by a disgruntled employee after being fired by Stewart. The rumor followed Stewart for decades and he finally dispelled it in his 2012 autobiography.