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TIL the ankylosaurus dinosaur sang like a bird
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TIL After Microsoft redirected the original Excel project from MS-DOS to the Apple Macintosh, lead developer Doug Klunder temporarily left the company to work in California's lettuce fields. He later returned to Microsoft and completed the project.
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TIL that when Bill Gates was given the privilege to write a class scheduling algorithm for school, he put himself in classes with a “disproportionate number of interesting girls”
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TIL about Admiral Thomas Cochrane, a Scotsman who served in the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars but dismissed after a scandal in 1814. He would later go on to lead the Chilean, Brazilian and Greek Navies in their respective wars of independence.
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TIL after Han official He Jin was assassinated by eunuchs, angry troops led by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu set the palace on fire, slaughtering any males without facial hair. It was so extreme that young men were forced to flash themselves to avoid being mistaken for eunuchs and killed.
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TIL that MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is called “Macaroni Rascals” in Japan.