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TIL Steve Jobs shared details of the original Macintosh with Bill Gates to excite him about the future of their partnership. Bill Gates and the Microsoft team started referring to the Macintosh as project "Sand", a reverse engineered acronym for "Steve's amazing new device."

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RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
wJgY TIL that the white spots on finger nails are called Leukonychia, and are harmless and most commonly caused by minor injuries that occur while the nail is growing. Contrary to popular belief, leukonychia is not a sign of excess or deficiency of calcium and zinc or other vitamins in the diet
04Zp TIL that the first African American NFL player (Kenny Washington) and the first African American MLB player (Jackie Robinson), were on the same college football team at the same time.
bYbN TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 about a shipwreck where the survivors ate one of their own, Richard Parker. 46 years later, a yacht called the Mignonette sank, leaving 4 survivors. They, too ate one of the survivors, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
MeMKA TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.