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TIL ‘Coraline’ is the longest stop motion movie created.

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neBWY TIL in 2004 Nasa discovered that Titan, a moon of Saturn has massive lakes of liquid methane. Titan is the only planet other than earth where lakes of liquid have been discovered.
jNGAa TIL about the Roland MT80s, a boombox that played MIDI files from floppy discs. It also features a metronome to help people practice learning musical instruments. Also, Roland made these kind of machines up to late 2000s when they added an USB port.
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