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TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984

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1aWlP TIL Admiral Karl Dönitz would contact U-boats under his command up to 70 times a day to ask them about their position, fuel levels, and other minutiae. This frequent contact between Dönitz & his U-boats helped the Allies to break German ciphers
YlL7 TIL Ethan Coen was first denied the use of an In & Out Burger reference in The Big Lebowski, but after playing the scene for the burger exec, he loved it and agree to let them mention the brand.
N7NL8 TIL that 3 residents of the Greek island Lesbos in 2008, tried to ban the use of the word ‘Lesbian’. They felt it insulted their identity, as they believed the term described their own origins. They lost and had to pay court fees of €230.
LrEd TIL Abraham Lincoln tried multiple times to remove all Africans from mainland America and was described as “entirely devoted to the welfare of white men” by prominent abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.
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