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

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ANQa7 TIL People diagonised with avoidant / restrictive food intake disorder give up on their will to eat
rY5w TIL that in Switzerland, “Needle Park”, they opened up a park where it was legal to sell drugs to get it out of the neighborhoods and streets. It eventually turned into a place where junkies did their heroin.
GJpJ TIL that the producers of The Jungle Book film originally considered Louis Armstrong for the voice of King Louie, but were worried that choosing a black actor to voice an ape would cause controversy.
wWDP TIL that James Gordon Wolcott killed his family with a .22 long-barrel in 1967. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was later released and is now a psychology professor and chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at Millikin University, going by the name James St. James.
9YKPB TIL that there is a difference between an acronym and an initialism. An acronym is when the initials of the words form a new word (e.g. NATO = Nayto) and an initialism is when the initials do not make a new word but are instead read out individually (e.g. BBC = B B C)