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TIL Ed Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor

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aRm0 TIL Steve Jobs wanted to hide a man wearing a fedora in the first Mac. Dubbed “Mr. Macintosh,” the character would appear after opening the menu bar several thousand times then quickly disappear, leaving users to question their sanity. The idea was scrapped due to the Mac’s paltry 128KB of RAM.
OGga TIL there’s a japanese company named Cyberdyne that invented a strength augmenting robotic exoskeleton. They named it HAL.
Lk4Vp TIL Justin Lin's film "Better Luck Tomorrow" was saved from being cancelled by MC Hammer, who donated $10,000 after Lin called him “out of desperation”. Lin had to fund the film by himself after his original investors wanted an all caucasian cast and he objected.
BgWwk TIL John Hart attempted to reform English spelling over 200 years before Noah Webster
EPPx TIL that during a five-day battle against mercenaries in the Congo, the besieged Irish Army radioed back to HQ “We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey”.