M7vE0 TIL of Mr. Macintosh, a little dude proposed by Steve Jobs who lived in your Mac computer and would pop up once every thousand or so menu clicks then disappear unable to be found.
j6akj TIL reporter Dee Dee Barnes was viciously attacked by Dr. Dre in retaliation for an interview with Ice Cube. The other members of N.W.A. later defended his actions. MC Ren said "bitch deserved it" and Eazy-E echoed with "yeah, bitch had it coming". Barnes was blacklisted after suing Dr. Dre.
0dnyp TIL In 1994, China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 broke up in-flight, killing all 160 people onboard, after maintenance the previous night had mistakenly connected the autopilot's yaw controls to the plane’s roll-channel and vice versa.
grkB8 TIL a small Austrian village apologized to King Charles III for “stealing” an Allied military truck in 1945 - and he personally replied, returning their symbolic repayment and expressing interest in the story
LQJYV TIL California election law uses a system that randomizes the order of the letters of the alphabet to determine the order in which candidates appear on ballots.
b6NP7 TIL Canada’s federal government replaced its 40-year-old payroll system with the Phoenix automated pay system in 2011 to save $70M per year; it ultimately cost over $5.1B.
QNAaM TIL 49 US state demonyms follow some form of state-suffix convention. Only exception is Indiana whose citizens are called Hoosiers.
ANE6g TIL Every military working dog is an NCO - in tradition at least. Some say the custom was to prevent handlers from mistreating their dogs; hence, a dog is always one rank higher than its handler.
yV40V TIL: Earless worms listen through their skin. They sense tones by acting as a sort of whole-body cochlea, the spiraled, fluid-filled cavity in the inner ear of vertebrates.
m1oax TIL that Andrew Jackson survived the first assassination attempt on a U.S. president in 1835 when both of the attacker’s pistols misfired and then Jackson reportedly attacked the man with his cane.
DQZVg TIL contrary to prior belief, constrictor snakes do not kill by suffocation. A study of boa constrictors showed constriction halts blood flow and prevents oxygen reaching vital organs like the heart and brain, causing unconsciousness within seconds and cardiac arrest shortly after
vPAL7 TIL about a quarter of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.