Post * xjd1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Warren Buffett refused Bill Gates offer of a personal computer, only reversing his decision when he learned he could play bridge online. He plays under the name “tbone.”

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6EkXX TIL that the parents of rock musician Geddy Lee (of the band Rush) were Holocaust survivors who had been imprisoned at both Auschwitz and Dachau and had met one another in the Starachowice camp.

WkaDB TIL that "Superpredators" was a term coined by social scientists in the 90s to describe a coming wave of youth violence in America that led to harsher punishments for children especially those who were African American. However, the theory was proven to be flat out wrong.

oByDR TIL a woman told an auto shop she had to cancel her service appt. as her car was stolen. One of the 3 Tulsa men who own the auto shop called her back the next day to tell her he & his buddies are chasing her stolen car. With TPD dispatch, they got her car back after after a 15 min chase.

9YLrD TIL the Atari 2600 (1977) only had 128 bytes of RAM (0.000128 MB), a 1.19 MHz CPU, and only supported games up to 4 kilobytes. To get games larger than 4 KB, the ROM had to be split into 4 KB "pages" that the program could flip between like pages in a book, allowing the console to access more data.

Qe9M TIL Bob Ross used to receive up to 200 letters from fans per day. When regular letter-writers fell out of touch, he would phone them, just to see if they were ok.