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TIL that Windows 95 included the music video for Weezer's hit single "Buddy Holly" to demonstrate the video capabilities of the operating system.

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lp97 TIL there is a town in NY known as Oniontown, where residents are rumored to be so xenophobic (and inbred) they will attack anyone who drives there.
bRL9 TIL that Ben Stein’s economics lecture in Ferris Bueller’s Day off was completely improvised. “I thought they were applauding because they had learned something about supply-side economics. But they were applauding because they thought I was boring…It was the best day of my life”
VMZ7p TIL Agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, with 24% of converted land going to farming. Palm oil however plays an approximately 2.4% part.
wLYO8 TIL that Hiram Revels was the first African-American Senator. He took the seat of Jefferson Davis, who was the president of the Confederacy
RJA4 TIL in 1933 America’s most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government.