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TIL that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first album to print the song lyrics on the back of the sleeve.

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nWjKB TIL that the first Photoshop version is Photoshop 0.63 which was officially created on 2nd October 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
ADQ6d TIL that the main function of the little hole in the pen cap is to prevent deaths by suffocation in case someone swallows the pen cap by mistake; saving hundreds of lives a year.
8eeeb TIL, in 1989 in Tacoma, WA, Army Ranger buddies at a bbq were threatened by Crips in the neighborhood. The Rangers called more buddies, who brought more firearms. They set up defensive positions and a shoot-out ensued later that night when the Crips made a move on the house.
4kNga TIL a 19th century self-help movement called “Ralstonism” (named after author Everett Ralston) convinced the Purina Mills folks to rename their company Ralston-Purina. The name “Everett Ralston” was a pseudonym and the man never existed.
7rogX TIL about Major Digby Tatham-Warter who was known to walk into battle with an umbrella. It was said that he disabled an armored car by incapacitating the driver by shoving the umbrella through the car's observational slit and poking the driver in the eye