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TIL: Sony installed rootkits through millions of CDs, and their president knew but said people shouldn’t care about it.

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MK4A TIL that there will be a full moon on this coming Friday the 13th. There won’t be another Friday the 13th with a full moon until 2049.
JGxk TIL In 1994 Michael Crichton simultaneously topped the charts for film (Jurassic Park), television (ER), and book sales (Disclosure).
loPvG TIL The Paris Peace talks involving North and South Korea back in 1968 were stalled because neither country could agree on the shape of the negotiating table.
wLxDM TIL the main reason the British lost the American Revolutionary War was because it was essentially a global war with all of the main armies in the world against the UK. Most of the fighting took place outside of the US, and the American Revolutionaries played very little role in their 'win'.
X06kQ TIL in 1900 three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace from a lighthouse on a Scottish island