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TIL that the Nazis made butter from coal

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kN5d TIL Steve Job’s biological father’s name was Abdulfattah Jandali. He came to the US as a student. He was from Homs, Syria.
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xVV71 TIL both the first and last rulers of Rome were named Romulus
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
91jr TIL that when Robert Picardo auditioned for the role of the Doctor (sophisticated medical software in hologram form) on ‘Star Trek: Voyager’, he ad libbed “I’m a doctor, not a nightlight” not knowing that it was similar to the lines Dr. Leonard McCoy often said. Picardo got the job.