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TIL the director and animator of Ed, Edd, and Eddie was shot 8 times by police officers while unarmed. It was caught on video.

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09Jv TIL Scientists devise test to find out if we are living in ‘The Matrix’
awRwL TIL about Styles Hutchins, the first African American man to argue a case in a Georgia court. After his success in court, his client, Ed Johnson, was lynched, and Hutchins' law firm was burned down. Hutchins fled to Illinois, where he ceased practicing law and opened a barber shop.
J5wj TIL the English word “callipygian” means having a beautiful ass
69LxW Today I learned that someone got to run Windows XP at 90 KHz or 0.09 Mhz. Who is equal to the CPU clock rate of a Intel 4004 (The first cpu in the world)divided by 7. This CPU was released in 1971. The Intel 4004 had 760KHz of CPU clock rate.
wYVo TIL a music artist has to get over 4 million plays on Spotify each month to equal a minimum wage living. (Article also shows how much of each other type of media would have to be sold to earn minimum wage.)