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TIL Paul McCartney spent time in jail for setting a condom on fire

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wLp9Y TIL At the age of 25, William Lawrence Bragg—along with his father—were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their efforts in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. He remains the youngest person ever to receive it in a scientific field, as Malala Yousafzai is the youngest
m1d1x TIL in 1998, Sony had the opportunity to acquire the rights to nearly all of Marvel's characters for $25 million. However, they chose to only purchase the rights to Spider-Man for a mere $7 million, citing that "no one cares about the other Marvel characters."
4kVpa TIL The founder of Sony hired an outspoken critic of their products so they could make better products. 20 years later, he became the president of Sony.
1GP4 TIL PETA made a parody game of Super Meat Boy, called Tofu Boy, and spent over $100,000 to do so; three times the budget of the original.
OG7N1 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus was the creator of Garbage Pail Kids