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TIL Bill Gates hired Jay Leno to demo Windows 95 at its official launch event. The footage was only rediscovered from a VHS copy in 2022

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D1jWp TIL I learned the Metallica bought the rights to the movie "Johnny Got His Gun." This was to use clips of it in their 1988 Song "One" without having to pay copyright to show it.
GAWWg TIL about Deaf lifeguard Leroy Colombo, who overcame childhood paralysis through swimming and saved a record-breaking 900+ lives during his career. His swimming talent and use of sight rather than sound to identify drowning swimmers allowed him to save people other lifeguards would have missed.
gr0O9 TIL that New Hampshire has a coastline
epkdn TIL about the CFA franc, a currency system for 14 former French colonies that’s managed in France and pegged to the Euro making monetary independence for the member nations all but impossible
W79ZL TIL that one in 20 Americans say they are willing to use violence against “a person who does not share their religion."