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TIL Japan banned beer vending machines from public sidewalks, not to prevent public drunkenness or sales to minors but because liquor store owners didn’t like the competition.

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dD5mE TIL of Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch of China who had his penis and testicles removed at the age of eight. Less than two years before China abolish the monarchy.
9YW0M TIL that the most widely manufactured device in history, the metal-oxide-silicon field-effect transistor (MOSFET), was invented 60 years ago by Mohamed M. Atalla and Dawon Kahng in November 1959.
78eoM TIL that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is ranked as the highest and second highest reviewed game of all time by Metacritic and GameRankings
JngV TIL In 1939, Władysław Szpilman, known from “The Pianist”, was in the middle of performing a Chopin piece when German fire on Polish Radio’s studio forced him to stop playing. This was Poland’s last live music broadcast until 1945, when he opened the first broadcast by picking up where he left off.
wNNM TIL that according to Robert Downey, Jr., they wanted Bill Murray to consider a role in Iron Man, but “nobody could find him.”