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TIL Mac users prefer bigger fonts than Windows users, because Apple doesn’t use ClearType font rendering technique (patented by Microsoft) that improves the readability of smaller fonts

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R5MOa TIL that CBS offered actress Candice Bergen to work as a journalist after "Murphy Brown". She declined, not wanting to blur between actor and journalist.
kOJbW TIL: When FDR died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
6E9LJ TIL an Iowa woman was ticketed for mailing her neighbor a quart of cow poop. The neighbors have had a running dispute over the woman's dog barking.
e0OE6 TIL that Big Bird escaped death from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion
7gpL TIL Asia Carrera (porn star) was awarded a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University, where she majored in Japanese & Business and is a member of Mensa,with an IQ of 156.