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TIL John Blankenbaker made the prototype of the Kenbak-1 personal computer in his garage

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Me9Pm TIL in 1919, the U.S. Army organized a convoy of 81 vehicles from Washington, DC to San Francisco, CA. The trip took 56 travel days, broke 9 vehicles, had 21 casualties and convinced observer Dwight Eisenhower to champion the Interstate Highway System, which he signed into law 37 years later.
9wdn7 TIL that according to iRobot CEO, Colin Angle, Roomba owners get emotionally attached to their vaccums, often giving them names, treating them as a family member and even refusing replacements, with one woman refusing to return her defective roomba, named Rosie.
wdpM TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
gd68 TIL David Bowie said “In America especially, when I do ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.’ And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!’”
WbdB TIL there have been 30 different Batman logos since 1940