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TIL Tracy Chapman was able to debut her song "Fast Car" to over 600 million people due to Stevie Wonder losing an important hard drive needed to do his own performance,

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Y769d TIL of Cincinnatus, a Roman leader, who after retiring to a simple life of farming, was summoned to assume complete control of the state when Rome was struggling against an enemy. After achieving a swift victory in mere days, Cincinnatus relinquished all his powers, and returned to labor on his farm
Z80xQ TIL About White House Journalist Lester Kinsolving, Who Repeatedly Raised the Issue of The AIDs Epidemic During Reagan Administration Press Conferences, Only to be Ridiculed with Homosexual Slurs by Press Secretary Larry Speakes.
woegW TIL the first telephone switchboard operators were boys, but their "rude and abusive" behavior led them to be replaced by young women.
OoWm4 TIL that Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has one of the biggest collection of videogames in the libraries'world, from PS3/X360 till next gen. Users can loan them and play at home for free and they also send them to other US libraries with Interlibrary Loan service.
G9y7 TIL in 2005, Rob Schneider ripped critic Patrick Goldstein for panning Deuce Bigalow 2, stating Goldstein was unqualified to judge when he had never even been awarded by his peers. Roger Ebert’s response? “As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize… Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks”.