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

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R7XG9 TIL in Romance languages like French and Italian, the letter Y is not phonetically named (i.e. "wy"), but is instead called 'Greek I' ("i grec"/"i grego"), as it was only ever used in Classical Latin to transliterate the letter upsilon (υ/Υ)
MeJR8 TIL that During the cremation process of a 500 pound body, the corpse was so obese that its body fat set the crematorium on fire.
VBXaQ TIL Two of the Jackson 5 brothers fathered children with the same woman, making the children both cousins and siblings.
KVDa TIL that a pregnant Indian woman swam nearly 1 kilometer across a swollen river to give birth in a hospital instead of her home
pkQ4 TIL that when he was in hiding, Salman Rushdie immersed himself in Super Mario World, and joked that the best way to liberate Iran was to drop Nintendo consoles from the sky