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

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wLxMM TIL Pressure differentials can trap and kill divers underwater
5V9Nr TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile
grBQX TIL that the last living person recorded to have been born in the 1700s, Margaret Ann Neve, was born in 1792 and died in 1903, 36 years before the start over WWII, only only 66 years before the moon landing. She could have heard George Washington speak, and heard the first radio in her lifetime.
wl46 TIL in 1996, a black teenager, while marching to protest a KKK rally in Michigan, protected a white man, who had an “SS” tattoo and and a confederate flag shirt, from the attacks of a crowd. She threw herself on him to deflect the mob’s strikes, due to her belief that “nobody deserves to be hurt.”
epMpD TIL of "Ardi" the fossilized skeletal remains of a human-like female anthropoid discovered in 1994. It is more than a million years older and more complete than "Lucy." It's discovery stunned scientists and refuted many core theories of human evolution.