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TIL “iOS” is trademarked by Cisco, not Apple
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TIL that Kal Penn is actually a pseudonym. Kalpen is his first name, and by splitting it up, his callbacks increased by 50%.
1nwr
TIL that Socrates complained about “kids these days” in much the same way that people do today.
Won9
TIL Pasty white skin was considered more attractive until the 1920’s when Coco Chanel accidentally got a sunburn while on vacation and people started to emulate her.
XEYQk
TIL there was so much fruitless speculation about the origin of language that scholars now refer to silly theories by nicknames: the bow-wow, pooh-pooh, ding-dong, yo-he-ho, ta-ta and la-la theories.
l7EBK
TIL during visit to a state built flat in communist Poland Picasso spontaneously drew a painting on a wall of some random folks living room It was painted over in 1953 by a couple who lived there and couldn’t handle hundreds of strangers wanting to come in and stare at their wall.