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TIL Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer for Chrono Trigger, nearly died making the music for the game.

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KYgJw TIL the Kennedy family covered up the DWI and murder of a young woman in 1969
MEaV TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
0o5 TIL the very first US Congress passed, and George Washington signed into law, a health insurance mandate.
gDYW TIL: The phrase “Proprietary Eponym” is used to describe when a brand name becomes the commonly used term. Some examples: Coke=Soda | Kleenex=Tissue | Xerox=Copy | Rollerblades=In-Line Skates | Frisbee=Flying Disc.
xEwB TIL: A California anti-crime law had the unintended effect of pushing the most violent criminals to Nevada and Arizona