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6EenW TIL that in Germany there's a festival without bands. There even is stage, but no one is performing. The idea is to enjoy the atmosphere of a festival without the pressure of having to see all the bands you payed for.
M7X9V TIL in 1964 AT&T debuted “Picturephone” for face to face calls. It projected 100k+ subscribers by 1975, but only ever had a few hundred. The service cost $160/mo at 25¢/min (or about $1,300/mo at $2/min adjusted for inflation in 2022)
kO6Ke TIL of Bill Weaver, the man who fell 78,000 feet from and SR-71 Blackbird test flight at Mach 3.2, and survived.
mOBo TIL j.K. Rowling has donated so much to charities that she is no longer a billionaire
BryNe TIL that all printers use yellow ink to print an identifiable and traceable code on everything they print; that way if someone tries to counterfeit money, send threatening letters, etc it can be proven to have come from their printer.