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TIL that “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too” is the correct form of the proverb, because its order is what illustrates the impossibility. The Unabomber got the order correct in both his manifesto & private writing & this was 1 of the linguistic anachronisms that helped the FBI identify him

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loAQ1 TIL when in the mid-1920s Italian carmaker Diatto ceased its collaboration with engineer Alfieri Maserati, Mr. Maserati still had an unrealized design for a racecar. He decided to build that car in his family workshop, thus starting the history of the car brand Maserati.
Ov6X TIL that David Bowie’s permanently dilated pupil was the result of a punch to the face in a fight over a girl. Despite their altercation, he and George Underwood stayed friends and Underwood went on to do the artwork for Bowie’s early albums.
e0KQL TIL Steve McQueen broke Charles Manson’s nose in a fight and narrowly avoided being murdered by the Manson family. He was set to attend the dinner in which Sharon Tate was killed , but cancelled at the last minute so he could go hook up with his mistress.
E1J7p TIL Mario was given his cap in his first appearance in Donkey Kong because of the limited advances in video game graphics when the game was made. A red cap was added because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.
dox7 TIL McD’s founder Ray Croc and Walt Disney both lied about their age to serve in WWI and served in the same ambulance.