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TIL That at one point, 50% of all CDs worldwide had the AOL logo printed on them

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loMea TIL Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden) and his then-solo band drove through the front lines of war in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They weren't protected and there were bullets flying around. They played a show for the people trapped in the city.
1ayPP TIL Vanilla Beans Don’t All Taste Like Vanilla
rLGd TIL when YouTube detects copyrighted material used in a video, it gives the copyright owners the choice of either taking the video down or claiming a share of the ad revenue. As a result, Psy earns money from 40,000+ different videos using Gangnam Style.
LkxRP TIL about the professional CS-GO team where the youngest member was 62 years, called the Silver Snipers.
QN8Kk TIL that the first computer mouse was made of wood? It was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 and was called an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System."