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TIL that Samsung made the chips for Apple’s iPod Touch for its first 3 generations

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bxlp TIL two high school students rode their horses to school on ‘no vehicles to school day’, and were suspended
Wk5Nd TIL that by 2011, 10 tons of human excrement had been excavated from a cesspit beneath Herculaneum, one of the towns that was destroyed Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Due to how much time had passed since the eruption, the excrement had no unpleasant odor when it was discovered
76dP TIL that while the United States was performing lobotomies in the mid 1900’s, the Soviet Union banned them because they were “Contrary to the principles of humanity.”
wL9Lo TIL Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. A child prodigy, he joined the L.A. Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
YG87 TIL a queen named Olga buried Nobles alive, burned the royalty, slayed everyone at her husbands funeral, and set their remaining town on fire, with birds, because they killed her king.