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TIL David Cross (Tobias Fünke) was the first investor in Kickstarter

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d9VE TIL There is a blind, autistic musical prodigy named Derek Paravicini that can play anything he hears but can barely count 10.
bLa7 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
wLerJ TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.
nWwkb TIL about the Sheitel, a wig worn by Orthodox Jewish women. Because of the belief that Orthodox women need to cover their hair, some exploit a loophole by using a sheitel and essentially wear more hair on top of their natural hair.
gLZ9 TIL that Randy Wools, a drug addict, helped executioners find a vein before he was executed through lethal injection.