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TIL California's total water reservoir levels are above average, with one at 126% of its historical average

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Y7GgB TIL Betamax had higher quality images than VHS if recorded at the base β1 speed. However, it was rarely offered on Betamax VCRs after 1979 because its recording time on a standard Betamax tape was only 1 hour. So the image quality advantage over VHS was essentially removed for most of the format war
AmEx TIL there are only 12 people in the world who have ever dived past 790 ft recreationally. That is the same number as the number of people who walked on the moon.
N7KaP TIL in 2014, Winnie the Pooh was banned from Polish playgrounds for being a 'inappropriate hermaphrodite' because he wears a shirt but no pants.
A61o TIL Charles Korsmo, the boy in Hook, Dick Tracy, What About Bob?, and Can’t Hardly Wait, quit acting, went to MIT, then got his JD from Yale and is now Assistant Professor of Law at Case Western.
1aDwr TIL of a man, who in 1977 rode his bike from India to Sweden to be with the women he would end up marrying.