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TIL Steve Jobs’ had a habit of soaking his feet in the toilet and his hygiene was so bad that he was put on the night shift at Atari so he wouldn’t have to interact with people.

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6ELa8 TIL The first modem was invented in 1962 and had a speed of 300 bits per second.
VjV8 TIL that Assassin Bugs kill ants, suck their insides out and attatch the ants corpse to their body. They then rock up to an ants nest undetected as they possess the scent of an ant. While invisible in the ants nest, they eat when they want
N7E6N TIL that workers in Cuban cigar factories in the early 1900s employed 'lectores' to read to them while they worked. The reading materials were often literary or political, ranging from socialists newspapers to Shakespearean plays - sometimes leading to clashes with anti-communist factory owners.
ZpAVa TIL: that the color of your nail polish can affect your blood oxygen reading.
6LnY TIL in 1975, Queen’s manager, John Reid, played “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Elton John (another one of his clients) prior to its release. Elton retorted, “Are you mad? You’ll never get that on the radio!”. The song eventually reached #1, and Elton covered it at Freddie Mercury’s tribute concert in 1992.