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TIL that Japanese Casette Tape manufacturers adviced to use an ordinary pencil to wind the tape if necessary. But they never checked if pencils in other parts of the world where of the same thickness. They are not.

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4krR TIL that Socrates’ would walk, according to historians, with “ a swagger so intimidating that enemy soldiers kept their distance” and “barefoot and unwashed, carrying a stick and looking arrogant”
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