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TIL Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” samples “34 Ghosts IV” by Nine Inch Nails. The producer never intended for the sample to be used for a country song and had never heard of NIN until discovering the song through YouTube’s suggestions algorithm

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TIL Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” samples “34 Ghosts IV” by Nine Inch Nails. The producer never intended for the sample to be used for a country song and had never heard of NIN until discovering the song through YouTube’s suggestions algorithm

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TIL that when the Barcode was invented it was actually very unpopular, several conspiracies were made about it, and the Barcode industry fought back saying that “luddites” were the only ones against it. It took 40 years for even half of all registered grocery stores to use barcodes, due to expenses

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TIL that in 2019, an Egyptian train driver left his moving train (with brakes not engaged) to fight with another driver; the now unmanned train crashed and exploded, killing 25 people

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TIL that Dame schools were small, privately run schools for children aged 2–5 in early modern Britain and its colonies. They were run by a “school dame,” a local woman who taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and for girls, knitting or sewing. They lasted until mid-19th-century compulsory education.

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