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TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s

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D1Gmp TIL Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for bringing 8 ounces of Marijuana into the country in 1980. After spending 10 days in Jail he was released without charge and immediately deported.
4X41J TIL that after the death of several Northern Irish republicans in a prison hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street where the British Embassy in Tehran is located from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street, after one of the strikers.
9Ye0G TIL that Quentin Roosevelt was the only child of a US President to die in military combat.
D1R8r Today I learned about Richard Overton, who in 1991 sued Anheuser-Busch (a liquor producer) for $10,000 because he wasn't getting more attractive women to like him after drinking beer, as he was shown in one of their ads.
rR4ey TIL that the worst player in FIFA 2018, German Tommy Käßemodel, isn’t even a professional soccer player, but the kit man of the team.