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TIL that DreamWorks had a music label from 1996-2006 and signed such artists as Papa Roach, Chris Rock, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, George Michael, and Nelly Furtado.

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7Q1x TIL Steve Jobs was hired to build the first prototype of “Breakout” for Atari. He enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak promising to give him half of the $750 pay. The pair stayed up four days straight to finish the game and were given a bonus because of this. Jobs kept the entire bonus for himself.
8a8Xa TIL all Golden Hamsters in captivity today descend from a single brother-sister pairing, found in Syria in 1930. The captured litter began with eleven, but the rest either escaped or ate each other.
6EbMW TIL about Charlie Faust, who joined the New York Giants in 1911 after a fortuneteller said he'd lead them to the World Series, though he was no athlete. The Giants won the pennant that year and started 54-11 in 1912 before releasing Faust, who was later diagnosed with dementia and died in 1915.
8aZlK TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime.
1aj07 TIL That the biggest oil spill in US history was the Lakeview Gusher.....Lasted 18 months and spilled 9 million barrels of oil.