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TIL The Paris Peace talks involving North and South Korea back in 1968 were stalled because neither country could agree on the shape of the negotiating table.

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e0oPn TIL a random teen record store employee saved Billy Joel's career by launching a campaign to revive Piano Man months after Columbia Records left it for dead.
N7A9M TIL Write-only memory is a joke among computer and software engineers. Initially there was no use for a memory circuit from which data could not be retrieved. The first use of the term is generally attributed to Signetics in 1972 and is featured in the Apple IIe Reference Manual.
N7KdM TIL the great smog of London in 1952 was so bad that pedestrians couldn't even see their feet. Some of the 4,000 who died in the 5 days it lasted didn't suffer lung problems – they fell into the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river
E1A9P TIL, Conway Twitty Sang 'Hello Darlin' in Russian. On July 19, 1975, the recording was played by the American astronauts on board the Apollo module to Russian cosmonauts flying in Soyuz 19. It was meant to be seen as a gesture of peace and goodwill toward the Russians.
rNJBe TIL American women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) argued in her landmark essay 'On the Equality of the Sexes' in part by highlighting women's "talent for slander" to show women's power of "creative faculty"