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TIL Steve Jobs almost called the "iMac" the "MacMan"

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7rNxZ TIL that Abraham Lincoln was clean shaven for almost his entire life. While running for President in 1860, an eleven-year-old girl wrote to him and said his face looked to thin and he needed to grow a beard. He took up her advice. After him, only two of the next eleven presidents lacked facial hair.
K4mE TIL that a family bought a chinese bowl for 2 dollars only to find out it being worth 2.2 million dollars
KOmx6 TIL Texas had a female governer in the 1920s
J1PE1 TIL about Operation Gunnerside; Just when the fuses were about to be lit, the caretaker of the heavy-water electrolysis chambers asked the saboteurs if they could help him find his glasses. The saboteurs obliged. They found his glasses, blew up the chambers and the saboteurs all got out alive.
5ojD TIL that neuroscientists have found that three seconds is the average duration of reciting a verse from a poem. This average duration holds true for poems all over the world and it is thought that it reflects the time it takes for the brain to integrate information.