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TIL: Sony made a digital camera that took 3.5" floppy disks for storage

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wooM7 TIL about the Ibadan forest of horror, in which peoples bodyparts were harvested to be sold for ritual sacrifice.
ajwb TIL that in Japan, you can hire handsome men to show up at your office and watch sad videos with you until you cry, then wipe your tears for you
W70GB TIL that the song "Down Under" had a major lawsuit 3 decades after its release. Greg Ham, who played the flute riff, was accused of stealing the part from a 1935 children's rhyme song. The band lost the case, and Ham was so devastated that his drug addiction worsened, and he eventually passed away.
ep0P4 TIL in Germany, escaping from prison is not punishable due to ‘freedom’ being a basic human instinct
B9ED TIL Stan Lee planned on quitting the comic book industry, until his wife Joan told him to write the type of characters he wanted to for his last project. The result was the Fantastic Four, which created a more humanly flawed type of superhero.