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TIL that the Soviets landed a spacecraft on Venus and took pictures of the surface…4 times!

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l1WN TIL a former lawyer, Jack Thompson. Was barred and fined $100,000 for numerously linking the Grand Theft Auto series to crimes with very little or no evidence at all.
GYDAN TIL there are around 6500 languages spoken in the world today, and 2000 of those languages have less than 1000 speakers
gr91b TIL that the original video for the Village People's YMCA did not have the iconic hand dance spelling out "YMCA." The dance was invented on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The original did have a gesture that looked like a Y at the appropriate place.
rRGO4 TIL the "Nigerian Prince scam" dates as far back as the 18th century. Using Nigeria for the scam only started around the '80 in Germany. The reason Nigeria is used is to te repel all but the most gullible people. Funfact: Nigerian scammers call their marks "Maga(s)"
9w4Xr TIL in 1956, Ray Charles started popularizing Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos because he didn’t trust the timing and quality of acoustic pianos.