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TIL Brian Eno wrote the Windows 95 start up sound on a mac

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l794G TIL that in the 1990s, the CIA developed a robotic catfish named "Charlie." This unmanned underwater vehicle was designed to collect water samples covertly, controlled via a line-of-sight radio handset. The details of its missions remain classified.
ODw4 TIL that the actor that played Krusty’s dad in the Simpsons episode “Like Father, Like Clown”, comedian Jackie Mason, actually came from a family of Rabbi’s but instead chose comedy, just like Krusty’s character in the episode does
RdLa TIL LSD is considered to pose less of a threat to your physical health than alcohol.
P0jn TIL Two Libyan pilots were given ordered to bomb civilian protesters or face execution upon refusal. Instead flew to Malta and applied for asylum.
ADQk4 TIL Bernard Moitessier was about to set a record for the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe when he decided instead to continue on to Tahiti "because he was happy at sea."