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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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KOlL9 TIL the first vending machine was invented in Ancient Egypt in 215 BCE and sold holy water. It worked by the use of levers meaning a coin would open a tap, letting water out.
NX0yN TIL some reenactment actors on America's Most Wanted were accidentally arrested based on viewer tips
MeEgb TIL at Willamette Falls a hydro-electric facility was built in 1888. It had a 14-mile long line to Portland, becoming the first long-distance transmission of electricity in the US in 1889. A second station was built on the falls in 1895 and is still operating today (Falls: USA 2nd highest flow rate)
eDR5 TIL that after WWII the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals, who had worked on mind control/brainwashing techniques in Germany, to assist them with their own mind control experiments on unwitting US citizens.
d8wWE TIL Security guard Richard Jewell, a hero who saved lives at the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, was wrongfully convicted in the media as a suspect. He wasn't fully exonerated until the actual perpetrator was caught and convicted 9 years later.