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TIL CDs are 74 minutes long because the president of Sony wanted to listen to Beethovens 9th symphony without interruption

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4ema TIL the reason Mickey Mouse wears gloves is so that his hands can be seen when they’re in front of his body
nWDbo TIL that all diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob and fatal insomnia, have a perfect 100% mortality rate. There are no cases of survival and these diseases are invariably fatal.
PYXpw TIL Mount Rushmore was supposed to be a sculpture of each president from head to waist but it ran out of funding so only the heads were finished
QJM4E TIL The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing US President John F. Kennedy, is the first known human killing seen live on TV.
WanB TIL: TIL Zach Galifianakis, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim were commissioned by Absolut Vodka. They were told they could do anything they wanted as long as they mentioned the product.