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TIL The Amish are allowed to use computers and cell phones.
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TIL that every single copy of GoldenEye 007 for the N64 shipped with a fully functioning ZX Spectrum emulator, along with ten games, hidden on the cartridge. This function can be reenabled using an emulator, letting users play the classic games.
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TIL Neil Harbisson, the world's first ever recognized "Cyborg", uses a cybernetic implant to hear colors through learned perfect pitch. His device has different constraints than our eyes and allows him to "hear" colors that are outside the visible spectrum, like infrared and ultraviolet!
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TIL The line, "There'll be scary ghost stories" in the song It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year referred to a Victorian era practice of telling ghost stories at Christmas.
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TIL Robert Plant once donated $10k to a radio station promising never to play Stairway to Heaven. When asked why, he said it wasn't that he didn't like the song, but he'd heard it before.
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TIL that Pornhub has their own record label called Pornhub Records. Under that record label they have released two albums, a valentines day album in 2019 and most recently XXXmas, a Christmas album released in December 2020.