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TIL Steven Spielberg played the office clerk in the last scene of The Blues Brothers

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nX4B TIL the first product SONY came out with was a rice cooker
9YvyD TIL in 1974 the girlfriend of Ted Bundy called Seattle police to tell them he matched the description of the suspect in several murder cases. She hung up after being told, “You need to come in and fill in a report. We’re too busy to talk to girlfriends over the phone." He would kill many more women.
NO5P TIL: A programmer was hired by a Florida congressman to rig electronic voting machines in previous elections with a 49%/51% outcome. The code was not detectable. This is the video of his testimony under oath.
5VPKR TIL that the longest English word is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust
gMJxD TIL Hippos sleep underwater even though they breathe air. They automatically close their nostrils and surface to breathe every 3-5 minutes. This all happens unconsciously, even in their sleep.