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

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OGlMY TIL proto-punk pioneer James Williamson of The Stooges left the music biz to design chips at AMD, and went on to be a Vice President of technical standards at Sony.
X0DRQ TIL that Helga Estby made a bet for $10000 that she could walk across the United States to save their farm. After she and her daughter did so, she received no money and found that two of her children had died in the meantime.
jN7KM TIL After a paranoid letter from a fan, J. Edgar Hoover opened up an FBI file on Frank Sinatra that lasted 5 decades. In the file, Sinatra was accused of being a traveller who strived for racial tolerance and consorted with Communists & a mob associate. The file closed when Sinatra died in 1998.
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