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TIL the military has a 26-page manual for baking brownies.
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TIL Microsoft helped save Apple by buying $150m of preferred Apple stock in 1997. They sold it in 2003 losing out on tens of billions of cash had they held onto it.
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TIL one of the reasons why President Truman ordered the massive White House renovation in 1950 was that he nearly fell through the floors of his Residence in his bathub into a Daughters of the American Revolution reception in the Blue Room "wearing nothing but his reading glasses".
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TIL that More people download apps on Dec. 25 largely because more people receive new phones on that day than any other
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TIL I learned that Bob Marley once said “The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?” after armed gunmen attacked his home two days before giving a free concert called “Smile Jamaica”
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TIL about Lover’s Eye art. Jewelry popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s when stylish aristocratic Englishmen and women often wore the miniature portraits depicting their spouse or lover. Because the tiny watercolors revealed only the eye, the subject’s identity was kept secret.