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TIL that Compaq released a convertible touch screen laptop with a detachable keyboard... in 1993

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ADJwo TIL The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson once got an F on an assignment in his high school music class—which eventually turned into “Surfin’”, their first single. The F was changed to an A in 2018.
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