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TIL the song Tar Sequence from Cool Hand Luke was later adopted by ABC to be its theme for their Eyewitness News local news programs

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6EGAJ TIL that First Lady Betty Ford was a supporter of the equal rights amendment (ERA), publicly pro-choice, and a breast cancer survivor who raised awareness about breast cancer as well as alcohol addiction as a result of her own struggle with both conditions.
x8D5 TIL that sniper bullets can travel for so long, the rotation of the earth will move the target
XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.
1VgV TIL that in the 1960s there were coin operated machines with live chickens that would play piano, ring a bell or play you in tic tac toe when you dropped in a dime.
D1v8v TIL Sweden supported the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war