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TIL in 1984 Stephen Fry bought the third Mac computer ever sold in Europe. The first two were purchased by none other than Douglas Adams.

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oXv8 TIL in 1982, in response to critics of his horror writing, Stephen King published a collection of 4 dramatic stories. Three out of the four were adapted into films: Apt Pupil, Stand By Me, and The Shawshank Redemption.
rR1a1 TIL in 1965, 4 CIA employees were fired because they started a “free-for-all food fight in the cafeteria.”
E19oo TIL 125 years ago New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.
W9wd TIL that people steal garden gnomes, take them traveling, and then return the gnome, with photos, back to the owner.
R7D99 TIL about cotton candy grapes; a type of grape that tastes like cotton candy. Created by David Cain, the cotton candy grape was made by breeding plants. He grew 100,000 test tube plants before getting the perfect cotton candy grape.