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TIL at one point of time lightbulb lifespan had increased so much that world’s largest lightbulb companies formed a cartel to reduce it to a 1000-hr ‘standard’

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8ee0b TIL when rock-formatted radio station WLUP-FM in Chicago were, at the time, being sold to a Christian broadcaster in March 2018, radio DJ Steve Dahl wanted WLUP to play "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC to be its final song before the reformat.
1aARr TIL The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone.
Lk8rV TIL about the Bengal famine of 1942-43, in which the British allowed at least 1.5 million Bengalis to die of starvation. Only when Ian Stephens broke with British censorship and published pictures starving people and bodies did the British start to provide relief.
oNQY TIL the idiom “Turning a blind eye” is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said “I really do not see the signal” and pressed on with the attack.
W7OX TIL: Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) entered a state of depression, but then he recorded an entire album himself including vocals, guitar, bass and drum tracks, finishing the album in under a week, the album became Foo Fighters second best selling album ever, and it received a lot of good reviews