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TIL The Last VCRS were produced in July of 2016

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bVwp TIL, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a millionaire by the age of 30 from successful business ventures and investments, well before his career in Hollywood.
p8RNZ TIL: The Beethoven family is not German, but Belgian. The grandfather was a talented singer and later became music master (Kapelmeister) at the Court of Bonn. His talents jumped a generation to manifest in the grandson, who had the same name as the grandfather: Ludwig van Beethoven!
R7vkw TIL that you were not required to take off your shoes at airport security & liquids were not banned from flights until 2006
9XjD TIL the word Rebel comes from the Latin verb Rebello, meaning “I renew war.”
9YAm TIL that the orbits of all the planets of the solar system were within the same 90° arc of the solar system on February 1, 949, and that the next time it is thought this will occur is on May 6, 2492.