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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer because he was the son of a friend.

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0wgO5 TIL that Rupert Murdoch's wife was the target of a 1969 kidnap for ransom plot, which went awry because Murdoch was out of the country and had lent his company car to his underling Alick McKay. McKay's wife Muriel was kidnapped instead and murdered.
JY65k TIL Post-it Notes were created by accident when a chemist tried to create a super-strong glue but ended up with a super-weak one. Even the now iconic yellow colour was an accident as it was the only one available in the next-door lab.
ZplvR TIL Brad Kane (the actor that provided the singing voice for the original Aladdin) went on to become a writer for such shows as Black Sails and Tokyo Vice.
XmDr TIL there’s an ongoing “loudness war” in the music industry that is being condemned by Bob Dylan and Alan Parsons. The Dynamic Range Reduction on new releases is decreasing the quality of the audio and creating a distorted “wall of sound” effect.
vnWr TIL Icelandic people are a mix of both Norse and Irish people. Between 20 and 25 per cent of Icelandic founding males had Irish ancestry, while a majority of the original female population were Irish females