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TIL that the word "Podcast" came from "iPod + Broadcast"

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epORE TIL Sega was founded by an American man. A veteran of the Korean War, David Rosen remained in Japan and founded Rosen Enterprises, which would go on to merge with another Japanese company and become the gaming powerhouse.
MeLJ7 TIL of Inverted Totalitarianism. Not found in a demagogue but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. It pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, freedom of the press etc., but it has seized all of the mechanisms of power rendering the citizen impotent.
16JRd TIL when snowflakes hit water they create a screeching sound too high for humans (but not some sea animals) to hear. When a flake hits the water, an air bubble is released that oscillates in the 50-200 khz range well above a human's range. Snow hitting water can increase underwater sound by 30 db.
ojL8 TIL that in 1971, on the day before Bangladesh officially won its Liberation War, Pakistani soldiers kidnapped the brightest Bengali intellectuals–writers, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, physicists, poets–and slaughtered them in the middle of the night.
YpGA TIL that September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, it was announced that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion.