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TIL that Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post

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WkL0A TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos and Mayor Karres, who, when ordered to list and turn in the entire Jewish population of Zakynthos, Greece, promptly hid them in various rural islands and turned in a list containing only their own names. The entire Jewish population survived.
xVwEo TIL that Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. “Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”
8eaMG TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists
8ekgb TIL the Wei general Xiahou Ba displayed great hatred for Shu and vowed revenge for his father Xiahou Yuan after he was killed in combat. Near the end of his life, Ba would defect to Shu due to political upheaval in Wei and a personal feud with another general
b9ydj TIL most muppets are lefthanded, because most muppet-puppet-players are righthanded and use their dominant hand to control the head of the muppet, so they use the left hand to control the arm.