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TIL The fella who invented the two-liter bottle was also CEO of Apple!

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loW7 TIL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK because of controversy surrounding ninjas.
vA7K TIL the often-quoted idiom “seeing is believing” leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)