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TIL the CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006

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e4PE TIL Ronald Reagan was so against expanding Social Security for the elderly, he recorded a record album about it.
1aV7r TIL an army's "infantry" is so named because it originally denoted soldiers who were too young or inexperienced to be entrusted with a horse and be part of the cavalry.
R5lQ6 TIL There is an organ trading Simulator game
D1pbp TIL new Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers are fuzzy on the sole, because this allows them to be taxed as slippers. Slippers have a much lower import tariff than shoes (in the USA.)
GAKwN TIL In Scotland in 1637, Jenny Geddes threw a chair at a minister who was reading from the Book of Common Prayer. This sparked a riot that ultimately caused the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War.