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TIL Ayn Rand took Social Security benefits and likely medicaid as well.

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gMjYb TIL Mensa membership benefits include discounts at Dell, Geico, Nationwide Pet Insurance, HP among others
grab TIL that one U.S. Navy ship nearly killed FDR by accident… twice!
p8N4p TIL that an Irish farmer called Quin was digging for potatoes in 1868 and instead found the Ardagh chalice, which remains one of the finest insular works of art we have of the celtic period.
LNK0 TIL -“Genericide” Is the term for calling similar products by the same brand name, such as all tissue paper “kleenex”,or calling a photocopiers a “Xerox”. Most popular: all pain killers “aspirin”.
p8LKN TIL about Tennis for Two, a 1958 video game played on an oscilloscope invented by a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a public exhibition. Largely forgotten until patent litigation in the 1970s, it was the first video game developed purely for entertainment.