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TIL the first President of Zimbabwe was called President Banana

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5YAQP TIL: In 1982 Xerox management watched a film of people struggling to use their new copier and laughed that they must have been grabbed off a loading dock. The people struggling were Ron Kaplan, a computational linguist, and Allen Newell, a founding father of artificial intelligence.
WB4o TIL of Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. He had 37 puncture wounds, exposed intestine, broken jaw, and eyes caked in blood. He was pronounced dead until he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.
PYRjn TIL Obsidian was denied a bonus from completion of Fallout New Vegas because the game scored an 84 on Metacritic (one point under the contractual 85)
n5xr TIL 1,000 people wrote in to disagree with Marilyn von Savant’s (World’s Highest IQ) answer to the Monty Hall problem. And they were all wrong.