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Today I learned that Steve Jobs had Apple first create a prototype of an iPad and then pivoted to launching the iPhone first.

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MeaP7 TIL that there is an extended version of both Kill Bill movies in a 4-hour cut that includes new content and is shown rarely in Quentin Tarantino’s movie theater the New Beverly Cinema.
1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.
v1J7R TIL Telephone Party Lines Were Once High Entertainment - neighboring family's had to share 1 phone line in 20th century up in north country area due to telephone company's saying it was too expensive for individual installation. Each family had own 'ring tone' and could listen in on each other.
X00vE TIL: Aggstein Castle, in Austria, was once used as a base for robber barons/pirates to steal cargo from ships, traveling the Danube River
W8Yo TIL the Black Panther Party provided a free breakfast for over 10,000 children every single day after learning that a substantial breakfast was vital to supporting schooling.