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TIL Beatles super fans called Apple Scruffs had a goal of making the band's lives better by helping the security, helping bring food, etc

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awl6o TIL Philips developed a double-sided video cassette and player to rival the VHS and Betamax formats called ‘Video 2000’. Similar in nature to an audio tape it was capable of 8 hours of recording (4 hours per side). Ultimately the product remained unpopular and lost out in the ‘videotape format war’.
8aXyb TIL: The Oakland County Child Killer, an uncaught serial killer who killed 4 children in Michigan. After he abducted his final victim, the victim’s mother published a letter, begging her son to return for his favourite meal; KFC. His body was found soon after. His last meal had been fried chicken.
Meg6B TIL Uncle Tom was actually the hero that stood up against slavers but pro-slavery works created afterwards poisoned the name "Uncle Tom"
p8gkG TIL Pope Pius II sent an angry letter to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) rebuking him after word spread that he held a 5 hour orgy at a child's baptism. Pius wrote "In order to have more freedom for your amusements you forbade entry to the husbands, fathers, brothers, and relations.."
nWPaG TIL that, using money earned from a 1961 biography of his brother Ernest, Leicester Hemingway created a micronation called New Atlantis on a 240 square foot raft off the coast of Jamaica, where he lived with his wife and young children. It lasted five years before it was destroyed in a storm.