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TIL The RIAA Tried To Outlaw MP3 Players In 1998.

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OGkZa TIL that Nike's legacy of sports footwear innovation was started by co-founder Bill Bowerman, with a waffle iron. The shoe was called waffle racer.
R77Dl TIL in 1992 President G.H.W. Bush got sick during a state event in Japan and vomited into the lap of Japans Prime Minister Miyazawa.
1akQW TIL there are around 2 million different species on our planet** - then that means between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year.????
MYEB TIL that the word ‘plastic’ in 'plastic surgery’ is in no way a reference to the petroleum based engineered material, but actually denotes 'sculpting or reshaping’, from the Greek derived word 'πλαστική’ (plastikē), “the art of modelling” of malleable flesh.