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TIL there are computer viruses that can be transmitted via sound.

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16ABV TIL that in the 16 years before the Berlin Wall was built, 3.5 million East Germans fled the country through West Berlin. In the 28 years after it was built, only 5,000 managed to escape.
RXD1 TIL that states such as Alabama and South Carolina still had laws preventing interracial marriage until 2000, where they were changed with 40% of each state opposing the change
R7ga7 TIL in 2004, an assistant high school principal in Michigan tried to frame a student by planting pot in his locker, then calling police to do a locker search. When no drugs were found, he laughingly told police what he had done. He later resigned and became the subject of a criminal probe
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kOgLm TIL: Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, named their daughter, Rosanne, after Cash's nicknames for his wife's breasts, "Rose" and "Anne."