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TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! 🪩🕺🏼

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mxRjp TIL that the US government used an Atomic Bomb to launch a manhole cover 125,000 mph (201,160 kph), that is the fastest that a man-made object has traveled. It is also said that it beat the Sputnik to space, although that was never confirmed.
nWyad TIL that a single ostrich egg has around 2,000 calories and over 200g of protein
pYPoQ TIL You are programmed to love music you have listened to in high school the most. The music we like gives us dopamine and other feel good chemicals, and its affect is even stronger when we’re younger because our brains are still developing.
oBDjW TIL in order to get the fluid and cartoonish animations that 'Crash Bandicoot' required, programmers found a way to hack into the hardware of the Sony Playstation and exploited built-in code libraries to maximize the available memory for the game
a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".