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TIL Ellen DeGeneres used to call up Steve Jobs directly to complain about her iPhone, including the font size being too small.

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nW6v9 TIL scallops can have up to 200 eyes!
xVxwB TIL that Louis Armstrong, an influential jazz figure, didn't receive formal musical training until he was arrested for firing a pistol at age 11. In there, the music teacher, Peter Davis, taught him how to play the bugle and cornet. In retrospect, Louis said that was when "me and music got married."
AxEB TIL that between 1970 and 1980, 2 billionaire brothers attempted to corner the silver market. They owned an estimated 1/3rd of the world supply when in 1980 the silver price collapsed with 80%. The brothers lost over a billion dollars.
x6XGw TIL that in his first few appearances, Beetle Bailey was a college student rather than a private, but the strip wasn't successful, so its author had Beetle enlist in the Army shortly after, where he has remained ever since.
69Y7J TIL Ugandan pygmies were evicted from Bwindi impenetrable rain forests so that mountain gorillas could stay there peacefully. People ate fruits and root food in the forests but now they are being enjoyed by mountain gorillas as the Batwa starve