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TIL Microsoft used a cracked version of Sony Sound Forge to create sounds in Windows XP

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loEy7 TIL in 1955, Judy Garland was the favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actress for A Star is Born. She could not attend the ceremony due to having just had her third child, so cameras were set up in her room so she could express her thanks when she won. In an upset, Grace Kelly won the award.
1aGVr TIL that because of the Universe's expansion, a signal from an event happening at present will never reach the Earth if the event is more than 16 billion light years away
0wgO5 TIL that Rupert Murdoch's wife was the target of a 1969 kidnap for ransom plot, which went awry because Murdoch was out of the country and had lent his company car to his underling Alick McKay. McKay's wife Muriel was kidnapped instead and murdered.
RnpQ TIL when the Emperor Nero began to go nuts, he would stage long singing performances wherein the audience would not be allowed to leave. Women gave birth during these performances and men would fake their deaths in the hopes of being carried out just so they could get away.
l7ZVA TIL Blanche Kelso Bruce, who served as US senator from Mississippi, was an escaped fugitive slave