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TIL the Sony Walkman launched on July 1, 1979 for $150 & to this date has sold 400 million units with 200 million being cassette players

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LQka9 TIL there is US Military Cemetery in Tunisia, North Africa that is 27 Acres in size with 2,841 American graves. It was dedicated in 1960.
LQbWQ TIL: why Election Day in the US is on a Tuesday: so farmers could get to the polls and still have time to get their crops to market.
6ERww TIL that in 2019 Joseph Gradisher, a U.S. Navy spokesman, confirmed to TIME magazine that three widely-shared videos were real and captured 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena', resulting in investigations.
bpQ0 TIL Studies have shown that smoking can actually shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter.
myGO TIL that Werner Klemperer, who played the bumbling Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes, had a clause in his contract stipulating that Klink would always be portrayed as a fool, and never be victorious over Hogan, or he would quit the show.