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Br7nD TIL that at one point in the 1990's, 50% of all Compact Discs production in the world was dedicated solely to creating AOL sign-up discs.
xVAVb TIL that ‘Come on Eileen’ in “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners can be replaced with ‘Covid-19’ - thanks, Coronavirus!
j61Gn TIL about "Slack Fill" lawsuits, suits aimed at food companies for packing their food only a fraction of the each container's capacity. Most of these are class-action suits and the majority of the U.S. suits are filed from Northern California. In fact lawyers call San Francisco the "Food Court".
16kAX TIL - JFK's Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage was largely ghost-written by his speech writer Ted Sorensen. When journalist Drew Pearson joked about it on ABC, JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, threatened to sue unless they issued a retraction and apology, which ABC did.
e0bl6 TIL the Microsoft Flight Simulator series predates Microsoft Windows by 3 years, making it one of the longest running PC games series of all time.