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TIL Sony sold a Walkman Mp3 player packaged in a bottle of water to prove it was waterproof

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YZ7 TIL there was one US Congress member killed in the line of duty, Leo Ryan. He was gunned down while attempting to help families escape Peoples Temple right before the Jonestown Massacre.
DQ7JP TIL that the biggest bird sculpture in the world is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide and 70 feet high.
rRoW0 TIL that the intro Song from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band wasn't in fact a live performance, but a fake in a studio with a 40 people orchestra intended to break the fourth wall
X0XG8 TIL the smallest hoofed animals are called Java mouse-deer, not much bigger than ordinary rats
AN9Yw TIL the average American now consumes roughly the same amount of sugar in a day that the average Palaeolithic human consumed in a year (~20 teaspoons)