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TIL a man submitted a patent in 1979 that almost perfectly resembles an iPod. He even went as far as predicting a need for DRM and a way to distribute the music.

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wLlRJ TIL Howard Foote Jr's took an A-4 Skyhawk for a joyride, his safety attributed to experience, skill, and ~100 hours on a flight simulator. Charges brought against him included hazarding a vessel. After 4.5 months in the brig, he got off with just time served and an other-than-honorable discharge.
awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
0wv0L TIL of Paul Michael Stephani, a serial killer known as the “weepy-voiced-killer”. After committing a murder, he would call the police and tearily confess to his crimes. He even said he would turn himself in, but never did. He was caught after one of his victims managed to fight him off.
4XDGb TIL that there is a poem written in 1936 by David Shulman called Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title
kJZWd TIL that Since May 2022, Wendy Williams has been living under a legal guardianship that oversees both her finances and health. Williams was assigned a guardian after Wells Fargo froze her accounts in 2022, a result of her financial adviser claiming that she was of “unsound mind,”