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TIL Saddam Hussein bought 4000 PS2s in 2000 to build supercomputers.

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9wk9X TIL the familiar music played during Final Jeopardy is called "Think". It was written in 1963 by Merv Griffin, creator of Jeopardy, to help his then five-year-old son Tony fall asleep. Since its first use in the show in 1964, the song has earned the Griffin estate over $100 million in royalties.
VQ8p TIL that the original script of Ghostbusters was written with Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, and Eddie Murphy in mind as the main characters.
5VdX9 TIL there were 691 people that made over $350,000 in 2021 in Bermuda, and zero were under the age of 25
XEDaE TIL that news channels owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group are required to do 'must-run' segments. Which is a centralized system of mandating news stories, reports or segments at all 193 (soon 233) stations that SBG owns
R7xd9 TIL that if the 1980 U.S. hockey team had lost to Finland after the Miracle on Ice game, the Soviets would have won the gold medal