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TIL that the 1969 Beach Boys album 20/20 featured creative contributions from four people convicted of murder (three of them following the release of the album)

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JYwl1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a speech in Milwaukee and refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which he showed off the bullet wound to the crowd
9YLrD TIL the Atari 2600 (1977) only had 128 bytes of RAM (0.000128 MB), a 1.19 MHz CPU, and only supported games up to 4 kilobytes. To get games larger than 4 KB, the ROM had to be split into 4 KB "pages" that the program could flip between like pages in a book, allowing the console to access more data.
D1w9r TIL that the Lord of the Rings film trilogy brought the country of New Zealand so much attention, that the government of New Zealand has a "Minister of the Rings", who is responsible for all affairs involving the production of LOTR in New Zealand.
J11Ml TIL Beyonce's clothing line made to "support & inspire women" was made by women in sweat shops earning $6.10 per day
V660 TIL the dog sledding term “Mush” comes from Canadians mispronouncing the french word for go; “Marche”.