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TIL that Xerox built the first personal computer with a mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) in 1973, 10 years before anyone else. But they couldn't see any reason why anyone would want a PC so they didn't market it

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gMXA7 TIL that the phrase “don’t wear white after Labor Day.” Was just one of dozens of rules set buy high society women defining “old money” from “new money” as more and more people became millionaires after the civil war in the late 1800’s.
g9m4 TIL China does not have it’s own army. The ‘Chinese army’ is actually the military arm of the Communist Party.
oBakr TIL In 2017, Hai Tao Buddhists who'd bought £5,000 of live Crustacea & released them into the sea for good karma, got fined £15,000 for ‘untold damage’ to the environment by introducing non-native species. In 2012 Hai Tao had released 100kg of cobras in a mountainous area not native to the snakes.
rNYmy TIL Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise (Harriet) didn't die until recently at an estimated age of 175 years.
5YMyQ TIL that Shenzen is the only Chinese city that forbids eating cats and dogs.