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TIL that the inventor of Linux announced his project by saying “I’m doing a free operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional)”. Today it it used by ¾ of all servers, all Android devices, and the top 10 supercomputers.

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eNN4 TIL that it takes approximately 6% of a crowd to change the entire direction the crowd is traveling in
X0rpE TIL: Famous HBCU Howard University was founded by and named for Union General Oliver Otis Howard, a civil war hero and abolitionist who fought for the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
d8oj7 TIL in 1970, an LSD group called the Brotherhood dropped 25,000 doses of LSD on revelers attending a three day Birthday Party for Jeaus Christ in Laguna Beach
kvZ5 TIL Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for ~29 years, which is longer than any other prisoner in the Bureau of Prisons.
9QOD TIL That the Band ZZ Top during one of their live stage shows decided to have a mixture of live animals, including vultures, buffaloes and rattlesnakes on stage, When a buffalo rammed into a tank full of Rattlesnakes and released them live on stage.