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TIL that a song in the original Pokemon games contained sounds that were outside the adult hearing range (but within the child hearing range), which caused many conspiracy theories and online myths

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OGvLg TIL I learned that the 1964 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special was truly an international production. The was developed in New York. The voice cast was mostly Canadian and recorded in Toronto. The puppets were animated in Tokyo. The music was recorded in England.
VBVyB TIL that deliberately attacking a parachutist jumping from a distressed aircraft is internationally recognized as a war crime under the laws of armed conflict.
KOZE4 TIL Sony made an ad for their color display technology featuring 1/4 million brightly colored bouncy balls released down the steep streets of San Francisco. About 50 students were hired to help collect them using skates and floor squeegees at the bottom after each take.
P14Wn TIL that the first self-propelled vehicule, built by Cugnot in 1769, was intended for transporting cannons. The vehicle was not suited to the load, and despite further trials, the project was abandoned. However, 241 years later, in 2010, a copy of the machine was built, which worked perfectly.
LkAEV TIL in 1981 Dean Koontz wrote a book "The Eyes of Darkness". The chapter 39 it mentions a Chinese military lab outside of the city of Wuhan, where a deadly virus is invented as part of the country's biological weapons warfare programme. Owing to the lab's location, the virus is named 'Wuhan-400'.