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TIL the on-hold track loop most people are familiar with is used by Cisco Systems, and was created by a 16 year old IT nerd named Tim Carleton.

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R5gy6 TIL that the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing was held in 1916 - because President Woodrow Wilson nominated a Jew for the seat
gMVP8 TIL former Man vs. Food host Adam Richman was almost killed by Florida Man
x6O1w TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler, believing his rhetoric was just to "stir up the masses"
kJ175 TIL "Lovefool" was the first song Nina Persson had written for her band, The Cardigans.
OGK51 TIL of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who rejected conventional genetics and natural selection. Lysenko believed plants of the same species never compete, and so forced farmers to plant seeds very densely. This actually harmed yields, contributing to large famines in the USSR, and later China.