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TIL that NBC and AT&T used corporate and government bullying to destroy the life of the inventor of FM radio, leading to his suicide

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oBJko TIL that playing Taps at military funerals started with a Union soldier’s funeral held too close to the enemy to risk a traditional gun salute giving away their position. They played Taps to give a quieter salute. It was also named Taps because the bugle melody was often followed by three drum taps.
awbYN TIL Community’s Magnitude (“Pop, Pop!”) is Hogwart’s student Lee Jordan in the Harry Potter film series
vPwvK TIL that the CIA tried to bribe Egypt’s president Abdelnasser to join a proposed ME defence org but he took the bribe ($3 Million) then refused to join.
MevvW TIL that all undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology must pass a swimming test before they can graduate.
pmnZ TIL in 1738 Jaques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that could flap its wings,drink water,digest grain and even defecate. The duck had over 400 moving parts in each wing alone. Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world’s first flexible rubber tube while building the duck’s intestines