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TIL about Manhattan's Bermuda Triangle, a five block radius around the Empire State Building where cars mysteriously die

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rRGrw TIL that in the UK, The National Lottery hunts for winners of unclaimed Lottery prizes, but in the U.S. they let it expire after one year without putting in effort to search for the winner.
ANbmg TIL Apple's first CEO, Michael Scott, once personally fired forty Apple employees, believing they were redundant. Later the same day, he gathered employees around a keg of beer and stated, "I'll fire people until it's fun again." Following this event, he was demoted to vice chairman.
KYOZB TIL Before Wi-fi and modems people had shows that were transmitted over the radio. These shows had games, calculation programs, educational tools, encyclopedias, and even flight simulators. People tuned in and recorded and played the sounds back to their personal computers.
D1Ryj TIL that the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was completed in 1858 and the first telegram was sent from Queen Victoria to the president of the United States. It was destroyed a month later due to the application of excessive voltage.
LkDav TIL Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.