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TIL a group is digitally archiving old cassette and VHS tapes ranging back to the early 90's. The contents of the recordings include everything from yoga workouts, DIY tutorials on installing vinyl flooring or training a dog, self help books, and TV recordings like a Bjork interview and TRL episodes

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0YZj TIL Dyson Airblade hand-driers spread 60 times more germs than standard air dryers, and 1,300 times more than standard paper towels, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
MePj0 TIL of the "50 Cent Army" in China. Online commentators who are paid ¥0.50 for every post to manipulate public opinion on social media.
GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.
kJwvg TIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, 1/5th of the state budget of Mississippi was spent on artificial limbs.
W7Vjd TIL that Lake Superior has an island which has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder, which, when the pond floods, becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.