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TIL Jobs/Wozniak sold illegal blue box phone phreaking devices before founding Apple

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4knjo TIL that Western zoos do not buy or sell animals to one another but trade them instead.
M7wQB TIL Anne Rice's birth name was Howard Allen. She became 'Anne' on her first day of school, when a nun asked her what her name was. She told the nun 'Anne' because she considered it a pretty name. Her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her and then legally changed her name in 1947
J1nKB TIL that in 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary went on an expedition to find evidence of the yeti. He returned with two scraps of fur that locals claimed was “yeti fur,” but was later found to be from the pelt of a rare Tibetan blue bear.
X0XX TIL that the working title for “Snakes on a Plane” was changed to “Pacific Air Flight 121” during filming, but Samuel L. Jackson insisted that they change it back. He later said, “That’s the only reason I took the job- I read the title.”
58Wn TIL that the form of Tourette’s that causes cursing is called Coprolalia, Greek for “shit talking”