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

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LQWoQ TIL Linda Fiorentino, aka Bethany from Dogma and Laurel from Men in Black, dated an FBI agent to gain access to his work files to try to help her boyfriend avoid jail time
QJp8M TIL that the Democrat's Donkey originated as a pejorative for Andrew "Jackass" Jackson, but was adopted by his party as a symbol of the working class.
LQbkV TIL about the affluent African American community Seneca Village that was leveled to make Central Park in New York City.
p8oAp TIL that there's a cave in Romania that had been sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and scientists have discovered dozens of unique lifeforms thriving in the poisonous gases and water.
0wENM TIL a rare 400-year-old shimpaku tree, which was due to be entered in a Japanese beauty competition, was stolen from a roughly 5,000 hectare park run by a fifth generation bonsai master whose family practice dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868)