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TIL: The world’s smallest hard drive is only 96 atoms big.

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BXKD TIL that Britain only finished paying its WW2 debts off in 2006, and was only three months shy of bankruptcy when the war ended in 1945
EgnW TIL there is a vinyl player that uses laser beams to read the sound, thus no deterioration to the record.
8eA5X TIL Wyoming passed a law that bans burying wind turbine blades in landfills
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