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TIL: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey launched his tech career by writing open source software to route delivery trucks from the Internet

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mmAP TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor the lyrics of Killing In The Name when performing live for BBC. They started out censored before launching into the full lyrics, which are “F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”
MgGa TIL- There is a mathematical theory of why cords get tangled.
8JOP TIL President Carter met with North Korea’s Kim Il Sung on a boat trip for five hours in 1994. Kim agreed with everything Carter proposed on resolving political differences and said OK to a summit meeting with the President of South Korea which never happened as Kim died that same month
L9VV TIL When China was selecting female astronauts for its space mission the women were required to be married, to have given birth naturally and to neither have decayed teeth nor scars.
oBLjY TIL about the death of Jessica Michalik who was crushed in a mosh pit during Limp Bizkit's set at the 2001 Big Day Out festival. Fred Durst's behaviour during the rescue effort were criticised by the coroner.