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TIL: That hops and cannabis are closely related

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4M66 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
Oo7YR TIL Number 4 (四; accounting 肆; pinyin sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死 pinyin sǐ). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g., Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm PDAs, Canon PowerShot
9YJMm TIL in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840.
7mY7 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell facebook for $75 million in 2005.
ANYvo TIL Taco Bell's first location, designated "Numero Uno," was saved from demolition by relocating the building fully intact from its original site in Downey, California, to the company's headquarters about 30 miles away in Irvine