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TIL that Marilyn Manson did a cover of Suicide Is Painless, the theme song to the TV show MAS*H, and said the song was “more depressing and offensive than anything I’ve written.”

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J17O8 TIL Alan Kay envisioned the concept of the DynaBook in 1968. Originally called "KiddiComp", he described it as a personal computer for children of all ages and would offer similar functionality as what is now known as a laptop or tablet.
md5p TIL that San Marino holds a national holiday whenever their national football team scores a goal.
nWa4G TIL that a money raising attempt by former Mexican President and General Santa Anna (responsible for losing the Texas Revolution) led to the invention of chewing gum in the United States.
MpPa TIL that Haiti is the only nation in the western hemisphere to have defeated 3 European superpowers, and the only nation on earth to have been founded by a successful slave revolt
e0W0g TIL that working memory operates phonologically which helps Chinese speaking people to remember more digits than English speakers because Chinese number words are all single syllables whereas words in English aren’t.