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TIL that tower PC cases became popular because of safety concerns. Apple worried that a new monitor in 1991 that weighs 80 pounds would crush computers under its weight. The Mac Quadra 700 and 900 announced at the same time thus have tower cases, to prevent users from putting the monitor on them.

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yQ4VM TIL when the deposed last Empress Consort of China was imprisoned, she would hallucinate that she was still in the Forbidden City, demanding opium and servants. Put on display in the jail as if she was in a zoo, she died from malnutrition and opium withdrawal in a pool of her own bodily fluids.
VMV5D TIL that John Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs
QJV9E TIL on October 31, 2011, a baby girl named Danica May Camacho, was chosen by the United Nations to symbolically represent the 7 billionth person on earth. To mark this global-population milestone, October 31 was named Seven Billion Day.
ANkLd TIL Pablo Picasso was influenced by the Japanese artist Hokusai's erotic woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife." Picasso drew his own private version in 1903, titled Dona i Pop.
nePDd TIL the only king to defeat All three armies of Mongols was Alauddin khilji. Thus saving Hinduism, languages, culture and cuisine of india.