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TIL there was a vinyl record format that could play videos: the Capacitance Electronic Disc.

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E1yMV TIL that “Boo” comes from the Latin, meaning “I am crying aloud!”, which means that when ghosts say “boo!” they are basically saying “I am yelling!”
kOoEE TIL pants and trousers are called pairs because they used to be separate. As early as the 16th Century, you'd feed one leg in, tie the top around your waist and do the same with the other leg. The name stayed even when they started being made as a single item.
JYLKv TIL that, in Huangluo, the average hair length of the 120 women is 1,7 meters : they only cut their hair once in their life (at age 16) and the remains are attached to their current growing strands, along with their daily fallings strings of hair.
MeJ4A TIL That Steven Spielberg's father Arnold Spielberg, who is still alive at 103, created the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register
4XZjJ TIL the original Routemaster double-decker buses in London could carry over 60 people with a single 115 hp engine