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TIL that because broadcast satellite technology wasn’t invented yet, footage from the 1960 Rome Olympics was videoed and flown back to the US by plane and often aired events the same day they happened

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nwM9 TIL Best Buy used to have a fake internal website that looked exactly like their actual internet website, but with marked up prices, so they could price gouge in-store customers.
loMYV TIL that one of the top glitter manufacturers in the USA cannot name their biggest client, since the client doesn't want it known they use glitter. When a manager was asked if they could name them in a New York Times interview they instantly replied, "No, I absolutely know that I can’t."
Me9WA TIL that famous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick only wound up in jail originally because a "friend" was pissed that Mitnick beat him at a $150 bet. | After being bested, Mitnick's then-friend was so angry about losing that he called the FBI and blew Mitnick in.
RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
Na8N TIL November 9 is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, declaration of the Weimar Republic, and abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II…and also the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Beer Hall Putsch, and the execution of Robert Blum (1848 revolutionary leader)