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TIL if your headphone plug has 1 stripe, it's mono; if it has 2 stripes, it's stereo; if it has 3 stripes, it's stereo and also passes microphone input

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5V55P TIL that most FedEx Ground trucks on the road are owned and operated by a local businessperson, not FedEx Corporate, via FedEx's ISP, or individual service provider program. These ISPs are similar to franchisees and they buy a route, own the trucks, hire the drivers and get paid to deliver packages.
LeKr TIL Elvis Presley only ever failed one class, music.
OGnDe TIL, for the 2024 Solar Eclipse 28 of 50 US States have at least 1 state park with >90% Totality
jNa9R TIL France is the World's leading water purificator and has most availability to its citizens.
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.