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TIL Bing Crosby was at the heart of introducing recordable master tape, revolutionizing radio, studio recording, & later TV/video production. In 1947, he funded the first commercial tape recorder with $50k, leading to the first radio show recorded on magnetic tape and changing broadcasting forever.

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W7Z9A TIL Natsume Sōseki was robotically revived as an android by Nishogakusha university in Tokyo and voiced by his grandson Fusanosuke Natsume in 2016 to revive interest in this amazing modern Japanese author.
XEmRk TIL that in Desert Storm in order to avoid trench warfare, the US put plows on Bradleys which drove along and filled 70 miles of defensive trenches obliterating thousands of Iraqi soldiers by burying them alive. Not a single American was killed during the attack.
LXEQ TIL that above the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were the words “Everyone gets what they deserve”. After the war the camp became a prison site for Nazis, and the words were not removed.
awdA9 TIL, Elliott Rodger's complaints about so-called "rejections" from women as his excuse for a killing rampage in 2014, we're actually a perception he had that manifested after doing what others would call 'self-rejecting' and being 'closed off' from society.
9Y6Vr TIL Grenadiers were originally tall and strong soldiers who specialized in just throwing grenades. In the 18th century, grenades lost popularity so grenadiers were repurposed as elite soldiers.