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TIL that Billy Joel's last hit "We didn't start the fire" that chronicled 40 years of US and World history in song was inspired by a discussion that Billy Joel had with Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Sadly, only 5 of the 59 people that are mentioned in the song are still alive.

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R7rRl TIL In 1880, Felix Adler, the philosopher who would later lead America’s first national campaign against child labor, proposed a 100% tax rate on income above the point “when a certain high and abundant sum has been reached, amply sufficient for all the comforts and true refinements of life”.
7Q1x TIL Steve Jobs was hired to build the first prototype of “Breakout” for Atari. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak promising to give him half of the $750 pay. The pair stayed up four days straight to finish the game and were given a bonus because of this. Jobs kept the entire bonus for himself.
eMxn TIL Rick and Morty started as The Adventures of Doc and Mharti, “a pornographic vandalization,” of Back to the Future where “Doc Brown urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.”
9Z1m TIL that the NFL cannot host games on Fridays or Saturdays until late December as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football, which typically host games on those days.
Brlye TIL jellyfish have one hole for everything: they have a single "mouth" where they consume food, excrete waste, and reproduce.