› added 5 days ago

1

TIL Bill Gates and Steve Jobs announced Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh at a joint press conference on May 2, 1985. The Windows version of Excel wasn't released until over two years later in 1987 with the release Windows 2.0.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

GYeoN TIL: Less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school
E1JVx TIL In 1996, a group of scientists claimed to have found evidence of microscopic fossils formed by Martian primitive life billions of years ago on a meteorite discovered in Antarctica.
Z00G TIL a Jeep can be disassembled and reassembled in under 4 minutes.
yQ54J TIL that in the US, peanut butter must contain 90% peanuts, otherwise it must be called “peanut spread”
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.