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TIL the first product SONY came out with was a rice cooker

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4Zww TIL that none of the paintings Bob Ross painted on air were spontaneous. He would refer to a painting he created earlier that was hidden off camera.
rRMNo TIL formations called "the Devil's Corkscrew" were first found around Harrison, Nebraska, in 1891, and were once thought to be extinct forms of sea sponges, but it turns out they are actually fossilized dens of an extinct type of beaver called Palaeocastor.
7lNO TIL there have been almost 7,000 cases of whooping cough in California this year, affecting mostly unvaccinated children ages 7-16.
GYmBE TIL about the Giant Golden-Crown Flying Fox. It is one of the largest bats in the world with a wingspan up to 5.6 feet.
0wwQ5 TIL that the Australian Professional Women's Soccer team once lost a match 7-0 to an amateur team of 15 year-old boys