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TIL Styrofoam™ cups and packaging don't exist. They are made from a different type of styrene foam

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0P4p TIL that Sony were still producing the Cassette Walkman up until 2010
Z8QKo TIL Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" was sung by his background singer Mickey Thomas. Bishop felt his gravelly voice didn't suit the song and asked Thomas to take lead. It was Bishop's biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1976.
BgG4x TIL that there’s a standardization for toy train rail gauge, which is 53.975 millimeters, or 2+1⁄8 inches.
9w0Rp TIL: Besides witch trials, there was a Wizard trial in Lyon which saw mainly men sentenced to death. They planned to form a pact with Satan and use magic to find hidden treasure. This differed from the usual cases of curses.
AN7l4 TIL Matthew perry once beat up the current Canadian prime ministrer in a school fight.