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TIL an 'audiophile' once spent $10K to build his own 40-ft utility pole on his backyard just to listen to 'purer music'

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KOZ76 TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitt ing the barrier that he stole the from and died.
XEWLj TIL that the inventor of the X-Ray never patented his accidental discovery due to the obvious benefits to medical applications.
MQP0 TIL in 1993 the NSA was almost successful requiring a chip in all communication devices that would essentially outlaw public key encryptions and give them a backdoor to… everything.
0wZ7p TIL of the Vandals, a large East Germanic tribe originating from Poland and who, fleeing from the Huns, gradually migrated to Roman territories during the fifth century. They conquered Spain and most of Northern Africa and eventually sacked and looted Rome. The word "vandalism" is named after them.
l7OA7 TIL US President Lyndon Johnson installed a shower in the White House that had the intensity of a firehouse and got so hot it regularly set of the fire alarms. One of Nixon's first acts as president was to have the shower torn out.