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TiL Thomas Edison launched a smear campaign in the early 1900s to discredit Alternating Current as it opposed Direct Current which he developed. He even went as far as electrocuting animals and a human, through the first ever electric chair.

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6xpQ TIL that in ‘King of the Hill’, Octavio, a “badass gangster” character who is basically a cartoon version of Danny Trejo, was voiced my Mike Judge, while Enrique, a “normal” everyday hispanic guy was voiced by Danny Trejo.
woZ7M TIL that Luxembourg, a country right in the middle of western Europe, has a smaller population than the state of Vermont, the 49th US state in population.
rNy6o TIL the 1971 film "Wake In Fright" follows a man stranded in an isolated outback town whose residents are consumed by binge drinking and gambling. During the film's early screening in Sydney, an offended viewer shouted, "That's not us!" One of the actors yelled back "Sit down, mate. It is us."
6Em17 TIL that Wendy Carlos is not only the pioneer of EM (soundtracks composed include Clockwork Orange and The Shining) but also an inspiration for the LGTBQ community as the first trans woman to come out publically.
VK6p TIL there is a modern-day Rosetta Stone that intends to be an archive of human languages called the Rosetta disk. While it is only 3 inches in diameter, it has over 1,500 languages etched onto its surface. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.