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TIL junk faxes are the only form of spam that are illegal to send in the U.S. because they waste your paper and toner

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a8ePL TIL: Before CAD, semiconductor chips were designed and drawn by hand, a process that typically required 7-9 revisions. However, Bill Mench managed to singlehandedly draw the design of MOS 6502 chip (used in the C64 and Atari 2600) without any revisions!
VB4Gk TIL Mega Warheads candy were invented in 1970s Taiwan but it wasn't until the 1990s that they made it to American stores
Meny8 TIL that in 1795, conditions at Rugby School were so bad that the pupils staged a "Great Rebellion". The headmaster's office was blown up with gunpowder and troops had to be called in to restore order. The ringleader, Willoughby Cotton, later rose to the rank of General in the British Army
jNJPM TIL that in order to make Leia’s message to Obi-Wan sound like it has authentically aged for The Last Jedi (34 years in universe), they re-recorded it on a tape and then “beat the crap out of it”.
1YVX TIL the Common Kestral used to be called a “Windfucker”