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TIL that Amazon removed text-to-speech features for the vision impaired from later Kindle models, for fear that it would cut into profits from audiobooks

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Wk0N TIL Female penguins will sometimes engage in elaborate courtship rituals just to run off with a male’s pebbles. Also, prostitution.
E1XAW TIL a Chicago Mayor, Michael Bilandic, lost his re-election in 1979 because he couldn’t get the streets plowed
kJVY5 TIL that when Muhammad Ali first fought Sonny Liston, both fighters were widely disliked by reporters (Ali for his brashness and Liston for his connections to organised crime), leading to sports writer Jim Murray to hope for a double knockout.
kJxVW TIL there is a circular island in Argentina, called El Ojo, almost 400 feet in diameter, floating in a slightly larger circular lake.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.