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TIL You Can 3D Print Any MP3 Into A Vinyl Record

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w89M TIL that during the Cold War the USSR and the USA planned to go to jointly go to space together, but the assassination of JFK caused the plan to fall through because the soviets didn’t trust his replacement.
WkpL8 TIL Boring in Oregon twinned with Dull in Scotland, then added Bland in Australia to become the Trinity of Tedium
Rov1 TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.
yMEp TIL that a pilot was recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed on Dec. 8th 2005.
R5MB1 TIL that the 1971 film Walkabout featured the first starring role played by an indigenous Australian. Prior to this, any portrayal of an Aboriginal character in Australia had been played by a white actor in blackface