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TIL, audio content (or computer data) that was normally expected to use audio cassettes for early computers was also distributed on vinyl record type media too.

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16gAr TIL Porters bringing tourists up 5,895m high Mt Kilimanjaro experience health issues caused by high altitude sickness. Their wages are fixed at $10 a day (some paid $6), while carrying 20 kilograms of baggage and camping gearing on the head
WLB8 TIL only one MythBusters result has been labeled as Busted/Plausible/Confirmed
N7J6M TIL of Bruce Edwards Ivins. A microbiologist & employee of US Army, he mailed anonymous letters with Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) to members of Congress and media in September & October 2001, killing 5 persons and injuring 12 others. He committed suicide in 2008 to avoid capture by FBI.
0dAMy TIL that the lowest recorded Gallup Poll presidential approval rating is from Harry Truman, who reached 22% during the Korean War. This was due in large part to Truman deciding to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command due to his desire to use nuclear weapons to win the war.
1lK7 TIL that a man is serving a 20-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot with a legally registered firearm to protect his wife and daughters.