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TIL a single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto

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gBxA TIL the “Law & Order” sound is “technically a piece of music”, so composer Mike Post gets a royalty every time it is played. Post calls the sound “ching ching” because he’s “making money off of it.”
kJpog TIL that in 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1/2 into space with the Golden Record onboard. It contains music, greetings, and images which NASA cannot display online due to copyright law. NASA sent these images to space to represent humanity but cannot show these images to most humans.
lo6M7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin and his friend would use chess as a means to learn Italian; the winner of each game would assign a task, such as parts of the Italian grammar to be learned by heart, to be performed by the loser before their next meeting
eDyE TIL In WW2, when American GIs were stationed in Britain, they hated the racial equality in the UK, and would start fights with black British soldiers. Unable to abide the GIs’ racism, white British locals and soldiers would fight on the side of the blacks.
ZJNv TIL That the fedora wearing neck beard meme is Gordon Crisp from Freaks and Geeks!