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TIL Apple Computers made a failed game console called the PiP P!N in 1995. Only sold 42k units for $600.

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0VJ1 TIL: In 1999 an Australian called Bill Morgan was hit by a truck and was clinically dead for 14 minutes. When he awoke he bought a scratch card and won a car worth $25,000. When asked to recreate this for the news he won the $250,000 jackpot live in air.
VMNDG TIL the movie title RED stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous. Learned it while watching Grant Imahara and RPG's during our Mythbusters marathon. ❤❤
BrO7x TIL that Pacific Bell spent $40 million to put its employees through a training program based on the teachings of Russian mystic George Gurdjieff—to supposedly open their eyes to a "higher-level" consciousness. The program was halted after the Californian utility regulator launched a public inquiry.
v1N8B TIL Brandon Sanders once, In his high school, sent his story to a writing contest, Judges thought he had written something really postmodern and telling the story backward, Turns out he had just stapled the pages backward.
oRWvY TIL Dr Seuss didn't have a big hit until age 53 when "Cat in the Hat" was published. He resisted writing his own life story, and only sat down for two interviews near the end when he was dying from cancer