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TIL that the lead singer of Toto is the son of legendary film composer John Williams.

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GP5Q TIL Most of Sony’s total global revenue comes from selling life insurance in Japan
worY8 TIL the first food ever smuggled into space was a corned beef sandwich. It was smuggled onboard the Gemini III NASA mission on March 23, 1965 by Astronaut John Young to give to fellow astronaut Gus Grissom. Grissom was not scheduled to eat anything during the 4 hour 52 minute orbital mission.
xV4Lb TIL that the person Crocodile Dundee was based on, died in a shootout with police in 1999.
RpKl TIL the “slow puncture”, a form of punishment in South African prisons among inmates, consisting in the rape by a person with AIDS.
4krVb TIL that the term and concept of "jay-walking" was introduced in the 1920's by the auto industry as part of a propaganda campaign to claim the roads for cars and shift the blame in accidents from cars to pedestrians. At the time "Jay" was a slur with a similar meaning to "redneck" or "hillbilly."