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TIL Steve Jobs in 8th grade called then CEO of HP, Bill Hewlett for parts of his project to build a frequency counter and Bill not only agreed to give him parts but also offered a job at HP, assembling frequency counters.

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16wXd TIL American actor Chuck Connors (1921-1992) is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48).
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
grKP9 TIL the dark lava cricket of Hawaii lives exclusively on recently cooled lava flows and feeds entirely on windblown debris. It has been seen merely 100 meters from an active volcanic vent, but never within 15 meters of established vegetation.
DeLJ TIL One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” which featured dead people telling the stories of their murders.
E1dGx TIL - Cookie Monster's first "aired" video appearance was used internally for IBM to describe a coffee machine. During the video, he eats the entire coffee machine, after which he explodes.