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TIL that the iPad doesn't have a native calculator app because Steve Jobs didn't like any of the proposed UI designs

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e0XWb TIL that mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally separate prokaryotic organisms (single celled organisms) engulfed by eukaryotic cells (plant and animal). Now they are part of our DNA due to a continued endosymbiotic relationship.
XE9er TIL in 1965 Timothy Leary was convicted of possession of Marijuana and sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $30,000 (2020: $250,000)
WN1d TIL American males had a better survival rate than British males on the Titanic due to the British acting as gentlemen and acting ‘British’
x6k01 TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke
NWbb TIL that there’s a perpetual student named Michael W. Nicholson who has earned 29 degrees