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TIL Raccoons can make more than 200 different sounds

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0Pm5 TIL That Alfred Hitchcock filmed a Holocaust Documentary in 1945 and will be broadcast this year after being hidden for 70 years!
KGW4 TIL Sony created a magnetic tape that can store 185 TB of data in one cartridge, the equivalent of 3,700 dual layer Blu-ray discs.
69WVw TIL Cremated remains can be compressed into diamonds. They’ve created up to 9 diamonds from a single person’s remains.
9y4X TIL China has been producing fake chicken eggs since the 90s. The production cost is less than half of a real egg. They are made from a mixture of resin, starch, coagulant and pigments, while algae gives them proper viscosity. The shell is made from paraffin wax, gypsum powder, and calcium carbonate
WkjlN TIL 23-year-old Charlie Johns married Eunice Winstead Jones, age 9. They they had 7 children and marriage lasted 60 years. He died at age 83 in 1997, and she at 86 in 2006.