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TIL WYSIWYG, a computer software acronym, was inspired by Geraldine Jones, a character created by comedian Flip Wilson

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9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
ZNyQ TIL programmers for Atari in the late 70s went to the CEO of the company asking for royalties and their names be included on the boxes, when he turned them down they went and formed their own company – Activision
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
69ygZ TIL that a family tree, made from human hair, made in the mid-19th century, is on display at the Old State Capitol in Frankfort, KY.
yVBXJ Today I learned Arizona Tea is actually a New York based company. It was named after Arizona because they thought it sounded clean and crisp