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TIL Photoshop began in 1987 as a program called “Display,” created by Thomas Knoll. He and his brother John renamed it Photoshop, and the first 200 copies were sold with a slide scanner before Adobe licensed it in 1988.

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QrLp TIL Richard Branson’s mom once got caught in a fire at her son’s Caribbean island home. Kate Winslet who was also at the house at the time picked her up and helped her down four steps. At the time of the incident they were watching Titanic on DVD.
a84yA TIL that the US Gov't GPS was provided to the public in the aftermath of the 1983 Soviet downing of KAL flight 007, after it had strayed off course into Soviet airspace.
Z8KZo TIL When Japanese prime minister Keizō Obuchi was a young man and short on money, he travelled to thirty-eight countries, completely circumnavigating the globe and taking odd jobs as he went. These included being a dishwasher, an assistant aikido instructor and a TV camera crew assistant in Berlin
6laZ TIL before R.L. Stine published his award winning children’s book series “Goosebumps” He was contracted to write “Spaceballs: The Book”
R7yKj TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard") drowned on the way to the Third Crusade. His son wanted to bury him in Jerusalem, but didn't succeed in preserving the body in vinegar. Hence, his flesh was buried in Antioch, his bones in Tyre, and his heart and inner organs in Tarsus