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TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.

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xVmQD TIL about the Biscari Massacre, a WWII war crime where a United States army sergeant murdered 37 POWS in cold blood. His life sentence was commuted and he died in 1974.
O47 TIL that the Hubble can identify something only 10-24 km across at a distance of 4.7 billion km. That’s the equivalent of seeing a red blood cell at a distance of 1 km.
yV0Vv TIL immediately after the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, 3 survivors went to a farm for help but the farmer thought they were escaped convicts and fired a shot in the air warning them to leave, but they ended up convincing him they really were in a plane crash.
4Xayb TIL that the Philippines was under American rule. Spain ceded the Philippines to America for $20 million.
gey7 TIL there is no “Nobel Prize” for Economics - it is a separate prize created 67 years later, which Alfred Nobel’s descendants have called “a PR coup by economists to enhance the prestige of free market ideology and establish it as a science.”