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TIL subscription based music streaming for your phone was popularized 140 years ago.

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wZ18 TIL Pioneering English scientist Francis Bacon died of pneumonia after trying to stuff a chicken with snow.
v1kb7 TIL Chiang Wei-Kuo, the son of Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, was a Wehrmacht soldier, despite the fact that Japan was allied with Germany, and fighting against China.
DEY TIL that teleportation has actually successfully been done on small scales
R5wD8 TIL Candy corn was called "Chicken feed" when it was first produced in the late 1880s. The Goelitz Confectionery Company, who bought the manufacturing rights in 1898, alluded to the old name with the advertising slogan "Something worth crowning for".
9Y07 TIL Led Zeppelin played a 4.5 hour set with only 1 album of material