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wLgaJ TIL L.L. Bean ended it’s legendary lifetime return policy, and of course customer abuse and social media is to blame
XEZkX TIL The craze for collecting toy soldiers began with the French in the 18th century. When Napoleon Bonaparte planned his military campaigns, he used models made by Lucotte, a toy soldier maker, to show the positions of his armies. One day he handed a few of the figures over to his son to play with.
dpl9 TIL that in 1981 IBM asked Microsoft for a 16-bit operating software. Microsoft didn’t have one and didn’t want to build one, so they spent $75,000 on someone else’s software, tinkered with it a bit and MS-DOS was born.
JYAdV TIL the first photograph of DNA was taken as part of research by a woman, Rosalind Franklin. Unknown to her, and without her permission, it was shown to James Watson, who then with Francis Crick used what they learned from it to develop the double helix model for DNA, winning them the Nobel Prize.
v1rKx TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.