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TIL in 2005, when Steve Jobs began planning the iPhone, he had a choice to either shrink the Mac or enlarge the iPod. Jobs pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams against each other in an internal competition.

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e0Np5 TIL about the Schweinemord - In 1915 due to World War I food restrictions and rationing, Germany decided to regard pigs as co-eaters with humans and tried to preserve supplies. Five million pigs were massacred in the so-called Schweinemord (pig massacre) to both make food and preserve grain.
OoAJR TIL only 21 of the 43 US Presidents have won reelection. 10 lost reelection, 3 lost weren't even nominated for reelection, 5 died before they could seek reelection, and 4 elected not to seek reelection.
wxKE TIL Robin Williams performed stand-up comedy at a Seattle nightclub in 2004, 2007, and 2008 to donate all of the proceeds, totaling nearly $50K, to a local food bank without telling anyone.
v1B9R TIL a 54 year old New Yorker called Darius McCollum has been arrested over 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. He claims an overwhelming compulsion to do this due to this Asperger's. He is currently locked up with little chance of release.
e0gp6 TIL about Bertrand Russel's teapot. If he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.