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TIL that ski resorts were openly hostile to snowboarding in the early years of the sport, leading many places to ban snowboarding entirely.

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Y96r TIL in 1996 the United States Air Force patented a radio device for transmitting audio speech signals (specifically voices) directly into a person’s head.
9kMM TIL Pixar’s ‘Cars’ made $10 billion in merchandise sales over 5 years - hence the sequel.
GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.
0wB5L TIL John Edward Allen, who was hired by Ozzy Osbourne as a "personal dwarf" in 1981-83 and renamed by Ozzy as "Ronnie" to mock Ronnie James Dio, also acted in movies such as Blade Runner. He was hung on stage every night as part of the show. He died of an overdose at the age of 49.
0wkNp TIL The 8 hour workday was devised so that workers could evenly divide 24 hours between: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest"