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TIL that Mattel released & quickly discontinued a vibrating Nimbus 2000 broomstick that was so stimulating that sex shops started selling the children’s toy for double the retail price.

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4XjrN TIL that the Olympics have only been postponed or cancelled six times since 1896. Most of these postpones or cancellations were due to war, specifically WWI and WWII.
YnVP TIL a 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21 day shutdown of their computers. Oh, and he hacked the Pentagon too…
x6p8w TIL the Beatles were not legally dissolved as a band until 1974 when John Lennon signed the final contract while on vacation at Disney World in Florida
GAZ7 TIL: that when the author of Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) did the recording for the audio book, it took him 17 takes to record the passage about her death because each time he would cry or his voice would crack.
4kvOR TIL Iwo Jima changed its name back to Iōtō in 2007