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TIL the first computer with a graphical user interface, the Xerox Alto, had a portrait-oriented monitor

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OG8dX TIL During the Gulf War, A B-52 bomber and F-4 fighter targetted each other, thinking they were the enemy. The F4 fired a Texas HARM (High speed Anti Radiation Missile), causing damage. The B-52 was then renamed "In Harm's Way".
AD9Xw TIL that Oklahoma's state meal is chicken-fried steak, barbecued pork, fried okra, squash, cornbread, grits, corn, sausage with biscuits and gravy, black-eyed peas, strawberries, and pecans.
EgVW7 TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect, "a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them". The opposite is also true, people come to dislike others to whom they have done wrong
kJYrg TIL Although popular culture has them associated with medieval castles since the 19th century, underground prisons, dungeons and oubliettes were not as common in English Castles. Evidence suggests that rooms previously identified as dungeons, were in fact storage rooms for ice, or drainage pipes
g6l9 TIL that the old McDonald’s coffee spoon was discontinued because it was used widely for drug measurement and intranasal delivery.