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TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.

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Zbd4 TIL that Alexander Von Humboldt has more things named after him than any other person who has ever lived.
9YdQm TIL that In 1980 Keele University, in response to education spending cuts, issued a unilateral Declaration of Independence. The “Free Republic of Keele” declared themselves independent of the UK and issued students with new passports, enforced border control and wrote a new national anthem
NJv6 TIL in 1518 there was a ‘Dancing Epidemic’ in France. One woman started dancing in the street and within a month, some 400 people join her, many who later died of heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion. Nobody knows why it started or why was it popular.
MM9m TIL that Morgan Freeman wears earrings so that if he dies in a strange place they can pay for his coffin.
W7YrN TIL that in 1956, an overnight DJ asked his audience to go to bookstores and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine". Eventually, the book made it to the NYT bestseller list.