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TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men
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TIL that the 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles had a music video created for it and was the first music video to air on MTV in the United States at 12:01 A.M. on August 1st, 1981.
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TIL: During the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in 1972, police dressed as athletes were planning to sneak attack the kidnappers. But local television crews were broadcasting them on live TV and the kidnappers were made aware of the plan.