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TIL Bill Gates wrote his first book, The Road Ahead, in 1995. Gates predicted video on demand and computers that will fit in your pocket, and was optimistic about the rise of digital agents, how internet will affect the structure of cities

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vJMB TIL that in 1968 an American vessel was captured by North Korea. The crew was abused, and to show the world, they used puns (“We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”) and gave the middle finger in propaganda photographs, claiming it was a “Hawaiian good luck sign”.
OoyLe TIL there is a word for the study of culturally induced ignorance: Agnatology. Culturally induced ignorance can come from media neglect or deliberate misrepresentation; Corporate and government manipulation, secrecy, suppression, document destruction, selectivity, inattention, & forgetfulness.
LNjd TIL King John of Bohemia (who was blind) died in battle (where his retainers would lead his horse into the thick of the fighting, where he would then flail his sword around) was reported to have said: “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
Rdr7 TIL The first marketing pun was found in ancient Pompeii , found in a wine jar “bearing what is apparently the world’s earliest known marketing pun,Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum).
E1nn7 TIL the show Portlandia was banned from a feminist bookstore in Portland for their skits. They claimed that Fred Armisen's dressing as a woman was derogatory mockery towards trans women. They're no longer welcome to film in the location.