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

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YpegB TIL Russia has a military themed park that features international arms dealers, and are building a replica of the Reichstag for kids to invade
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
akLo TIL that the price of gold is determined by a very small number of banks, who also happen to be gold traders.
X00Mr TIL that in 1830, the Conic Sections Rebellion, Yale students protested having to draw diagrams on their final exams.
wLov8 TIL the first planet we landed probes on besides earth was not Mars but Venus