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TIL JBL is the acronym of its founder, James Bullough Lansing who took his own life in 1949. He inducted into the Hi-Fi Hall of Fame in 2023.

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X0M6R TIL in China, censorship became a huge industry, one of a major city Jinan is famous for it, even got a nickname "The capital of censorship"
0KDp TIL that former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, liked to write on the margin of memos. One time, he read a memo w/ narrow margins, and replied “Watch the borders!” The next week was met w/ mass confusion, as multiple inquiries were sent to Border Patrol inquiring about any suspicious border activity.
5VoOk TIL that there are approximately over 10,000 atomic bombs / nuclear warheads worldwide.
Yy8W TIL a cave in France has the footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old boy left in the mud 26,000 years ago alongside the paw prints of either a wolf or a large dog, the oldest evidence of human/canine relationships ever found.
epmaD TIL while filming the scene in 1983’s “A Christmas Story” where Ralphie is dressed as a sheriff, a prop man gave actor Peter Billingsley real Red Man chewing tobacco. Peter, who was 12, didn’t know the difference and ingested it. Production then had to be shut down until Billingsley recovered.