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TIL an iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table.

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Y7Kmx TIL the first streaming service was created in 1881. Théâtrophone let subscribers listen to opera and theater over their telephone lines.
9Yy1p TIL: Cartoonist, Mike Diana, whose comics often dealt with sexuality, violence and religion, was the first person in the United States to receive a criminal conviction for "Artistic Obscenity". The court also ruled that Diana was to submit to warrant-less searches, by police and the Salvation Army.
JPD1 TIL . There is no Beatles music on the Voyager (Interstellar Spacecraft) Golden Record because EMI said no.
m1XgE TIL Paul Reubens was the original voice actor for Roger Rabbit during the original screen tests for what would become "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
MLya TIL that the dispute over whether Newton or Leibniz invented calculus was decided by the Royal Society. Newton, as the President, appointed an impartial committee to decide the issue, which concluded in its official report that Newton was the inventor. Newton was the anonymous author of the report.