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TIL in the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of Mad magazine was published which didn't contain new material by cartoonist Al Jaffee.

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6EoEW TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
5VJE9 TIL the first crime involving a Glory Hole was in 1707, which involved the extortion of a man known in the documents only as Mr Guillam
W7LpX TIL In 1973 Poland, a group of archaeologists were permitted to open the tomb of King Casimir. During and soon after the examination, several researchers died, and many more died a few years later. The killer was the same as in an Egyptian tomb decades earlier –– a pathogenic fungus.
wLwx7 TIL photography film was made with only Caucasian skin in mind and Kodak only really developed the technology to colour balance darker skin tone by chance- because of complaints over poor light calibration from makers of brown furniture.
d8oGZ TIL - In the 1980's, Bob Crandall, the head of American Airlines, saved $40,000/year for the airline by removing just one olive from every dinner salad served to passengers.