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TIL CD/DVD data is contained in the plastic not the shiny part. The shiny part is just so the laser bounces back.

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l7JrN TIL that in 2004 Alicia Esteve Head, under the alias Tania Head, pretended to be a 9/11 survivor, created an online support group and ultimately was named President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network before being discovered as a fraud in 2007 by The New York Times.
VB5K8 TIL a 240 acre island off the coast of Scotland supplies half the world's curling stones. (Which are actual stones)
m1LaY TIL calculus is another word for tartar (hardened dental plaque).
KOp79 TIL St. Marina the Monk was a crossdressing Catholic saint who joined her widowed father in the monastery. "Brother Marinos" was accused of impregnating a girl, and rather than reveal her sex to save face, humbly let herself be cast out and supported the child like a father.
9YQgX TIL that puppy mills are particularly prevalent among the Amish community.