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TIL that the first Sony Walkman had two headphone jacks so you could share it with someone else as they thought it would be considered rude to listen by yourself. This feature was removed as no one used it

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Ejg7 TIL Misfits’ frontman Glenn Danzig was offered the role of Wolverine in X-Men as his short, muscular build is close to the hero’s original appearance in the comic books.
QJwYM TIL a 300' fire tornado ravaged an area in Japan during a earthquake in 1923.
xv4w TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.
J16E8 TIL Grateful Dead concerts were so crucial to the LSD market that Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 contributed to a nationwide decline in LSD use.
4keMw TIL the Parker Solar Probe has become the fastest man-made object traveling at 430,000 MPH, that's around the earth in about 3 minutes.