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TIL Dr. Howard Tucker is a 102-year-old neurologist named the oldest practicing doctor in the world…

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x6Jv1 TIL that the n in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the President's wife thought that all caps looked too aggressive and harsh. She thought the change made the logo appear to be more graceful.
o0AY TIL about the “God of the internet”. Jon Postel, until 1998 he was the single person responsible for assigning internet addresses
DQwEV TIL that the first touch screen in a car was in a 1986 Buick Riviera.
rKNe TIL: In the 1730s, a seven-year-old English girl washed up on the shores of West Africa and was adopted by her rescuers. She became the wife of a Prince and started a dynasty that extends into many of today’s Xhosa royal families.
16yOr TIL that Uppercase X is ASCII code for 88