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TIL Steve Jobs wanted to hide a man wearing a fedora in the first Mac. Dubbed “Mr. Macintosh,” the character would appear after opening the menu bar several thousand times then quickly disappear, leaving users to question their sanity. The idea was scrapped due to the Mac’s paltry 128KB of RAM.

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WklEB TIL Cloning of livestock is FDA approved. Cows and other livestock are commonly cloned. You have probably eaten meat from the offspring of a cloned cow.
gLZ9 TIL that Randy Wools, a drug addict, helped executioners find a vein before he was executed through lethal injection.
MMMB TIL male rape doesn’t exist as a criminal offense under UK law. When a male is raped, it is recorded as “non consensual buggery”.
pBbZ TIL Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.
OG5W4 TIL that when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House he kept a flock of sheep on the White House lawn and one of them killed a small child.