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obwW TIL of “muntzing”, a method for improving the design of electronic products: Remove components until it stops working, then put the last-removed part back in. It is named after Earl “Madman” Muntz, who used the method to cut manufacturing costs of his popular televisions in the 1940s and 50s.
0dEyj TIL Mr.Beast recorded a video in 2015 to his future self released in 2020. He had 8,000 subscribers at the time hoping he'd have 1,000,000 by the time the video went public.
4XgvJ TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges
JYpK1 TIL that American Airlines once had to remove a passenger because the guy blew a gasket when employees asked him not to do pull-ups on the overhead storage bins.
BrEBe TIL that until they were discovered in Australia, black swans were known in Europe as a metaphor for that which could not exist.