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TIL that tesla coils can be made in such a way to play music

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jNrKp TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.
E1Yp TIL The SE-GA voice at the start of the Sonic the Hedgehog took up 1/8 of the cartridge space
ej94 TIL believing that his comic strip , ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’ only works in print form, cartoonist Bill Watterson has refused to ever sell the film rights to his comics and has turned down offers from Steven Spielberg and Pixar.
QJ4yL TIL that Chris Langan, "the smartest man in America" with an IQ reportedly between 190 and 210, began weight training at the age of twelve after repeatedly being physically beaten by his stepfather and stopped the abuse himself at the age of fourteen by throwing him out of the house.
XEMpk TIL that Mayim Bialik decided to get back into acting even after having already her PhD in neuroscience. Because by then, she was running out of health insurance.