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TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'”

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6Egv8 TIL that in "Man on the Moon", Jim Carrey and Jerry Lawler had an actual feud. Carrey spat in Lawler's face and got him fired. When Lawler was rehired for the Letterman segment, he retaliated by slapping him as hard as he could - much harder than he slapped the real Kaufman during their fake feud.
pQAb TIL of Norman Borlaug, “the man who saved a billion lives” by creating a new type of wheat that was highly productive and resistant to the weather - it saved Mexico, India and Pakistan from famine.
Yp9aB TIL the exact origins of surfing are not certain, but it was first observed by Europeans on a ship in Tahiti back in 1767. Research suggests that surfing dates back to the ancient Polynesian cultures. According to data collected and myths, the chief of a tribe was the man who could surf the best.
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.”
gMxly TIL that the story of Balto is not only a true story but also that Balto’s recognition is considered controversial as another sled dog Togo actually ran the longest leg of the journey 261miles in order to save the small village of Nome, Alaska from an outbreak of Diptheria in 1925.