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TIL Roller Coaster tycoon was programmed by one guy. In Assembly.

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AD7nn TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rookie Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 ppg, or be an all star, or sell $4 mill worth shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 ppg, named all star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.
wLMP1 TIL that the only woman to ever give the Oath of Office to a US president is federal judge Sarah Hughes, who swore in LBJ the day JFK was shot. Hughes was a Kennedy appointee
OW11 TIL The Butterfly Effect isn’t meant to illustrate how small events may have far-reaching consequences - it’s about the limits of predictability, and how we can’t be absolutely certain of the outcomes of any calculations related to the weather.
d8W1K TIL that George Washington moved his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania every 6 months to avoid them taking advantage of a law that meant slaves residing in the state longer than half a year could claim freedom
b9GjE TIL of remittance men - useless sons of Victorian British upper middle class families being given an allowance by their own family to be as far away from family as possible, typically settling in very remote parts of the British Empire.