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TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone

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5P9P TIL that Amtrak has been losing money for 43 straight years
x6jro TIL Shops often play music with a slower tempo to encourage customers to move more slowly through the store, thus spending more time looking at products and increasing the likelihood of making a purchase.
JYwQj TIL the Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" and the album "The Wall" were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime
Gjyj TIL the Secret Service agent that saved President Reagan’s life became a Secret Service agent after seeing a movie starring Ronald Reagan as a Secret Service Agent
pMPZ TIL In 2005, Facebook hired graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals in their new office space; Choe accepted Facebook shares instead of a small cash payment of several thousand dollars, and when Facebook went public in 2012, his payment for the murals ballooned into a 200 million dollar payoff.