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

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lXw1 TIL Some jazz musicians in the 40s converted to Islam to get around segregation problems. “If you join the Muslim faith, you ain’t colored no more, you’ll be white”
mBgx TIL the panda’s gut isn’t suited to digesting bamboo and can only digest 17% of the bamboo it eats. Instead, it is more suited to eating meat, like other species of bears.
1aBj8 TIL that Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler mocking film, "The Great Dictator", in 1940 using his own money because none of the Hollywood studios were comfortable irking the Germans as they had financial relations with them. The film is said to be one of the greatest works of Charlie Chaplin.
6Y8Z TIL that Thomas Jefferson tried for years to send a gigantic stuffed moose to a French count to counter claims that the North American climate made all animals (including people) weak and feeble
16aPX TIL that a Wholphin named Kekaimalu is an extremely rare false killer whale and common bottlenose dolphin hybrid that's able to have offsprings.