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TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray worked part-time at a Little Caesars and was so poor he would eat raw pizza dough when no one was looking.

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BJoe TIL researchers from Cornell University are using computational models to generate rap lyrics. “In terms of quantitative rhyme density, the produced lyrics outperform best human rappers by 21%”.
rN07d TIL that the video cameras used by the US AIR FORCE to build the first Mixed Reality system 33 years ago fell out of an airplane and smashed to the ground, but still worked!
l77r7 TIL Plastic injection molding was invented in the 1800s to manufacture billiard balls out of celluloid, chiefly to replace ivory and save the lives of African elephants
oL0W TIL synthetic shampoos weren’t invented until the 1930s, with daily shampooing only becoming the norm in the 1970s and 1980s.
9wKL7 TIL that in 1965, the American Nazi Party ran a candidate for governor in Virginia, George Lincoln Rockwell, and he won 1.02% of the vote.