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TIL That printer companies intentionally design their products to perform ineffectively in an effort to get more money from the consumer.

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8xx4 TIL the King of Thailand was born in Massachusetts and is a US citizen.
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loNmV TIL that Phil Perry, performer of the "Goof Troop" theme song, was scheduled to perform a lunch-hour jazz concert to promote a new album inside the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
gB6W TIL Fred Waldo “The Great Impostor” pretended to be a surgeon in a Navy ship during the Korean War. When 16 severely wounded soldiers showed up, he speed-read the various surgeries he needed to perform, including major chest surgery. All soldiers survived.
l79p5 TIL that in 2007 BBC journalist Alan Yentob was caught out for having clips of himself nodding inserted into interviews on a TV show he fronted to make it appear that he had conducted them instead of other journalists