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TIL the Mythbusters were going to do an episode about the hack and trackability of RFID chips, but had to can the idea when Visa, Discover, American Express, and others threatened to pull all their advertising from the whole of the Discovery Channel Network.

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GYBw4 TIL Kate Bush topped the UK charts at just 19 y/o with her debut single 'Wuthering Heights', the first female artist to do so with a self-written song, and in 2016 she had 8 albums in the UK Top 40 simultaneously, the third-most for any artist, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.
gJJ7 TIL an empty tomb or monument erected in honor of a person whose remains are elsewhere is called a “Cenotaph.” For example, there are Cenotaphs all over the world for victims of the RMS Titanic, whose bodies were not recovered after the sinking.
aXk9 TIL that when the original Scooby-Doo series was created by 1969, a young voice actor named Frank Welker was cast as Fred in his very first voice role. He later became one of the highest grossing actors of all time, and still voices Fred nearly 50 years later.
rRd5d TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.
x6oEb TIL the oldest company in the world is a Japanese construction company. It has been in continuous operation for 1,444 years