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TIL Amazon holds a patent on 1-click buying; Apple pays them licensing fees

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nmw9 TIL that the Doctor Who theme wasn’t performed on a theremin, but instead was created by the manipulation of an analog tape containing a recording of a single plucked string, white noise, and several oscillators.
OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
neXRW TIL that pineapples were so rare a sight in the 1700's they were a symbol of wealth. The few that were cultivated in hothouses were worth about five thousand pounds ($8000) each. They weren't eaten, but were rented out by the aristocracy as a table centerpiece at dinner parties.
8eyZ4 TIL the 1st US Congress proposed 12 amendments to constitution. 10 were ratified as the Bill of Rights and another was ratified in 1992. The twelfth, The Congressional Apportionment Amendment, is still eligible to be ratified and would increase the House of Representatives to over 1,700 members.
yERX TIL that Teen Titans Go did a scene where they react to the original Teen Titans show and admit that it was way better.