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TIL modern Microsoft Office documents (.docx, .xlsx) are actually just ZIP files containing multiple XML files. You can change the extension of office documents to .zip and see this yourself.

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BN6D TIL: Spike Jones was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 40s and 50s. It was considered an honor for him to satirize your work. You’ll probably recognize one of his more popular hits this time of year: “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”
Emvp TIL of Memory Crystals. A small disc that can hold 360 terabytes of data.
eorn TIL in the late 80’s, Weird Al turned down 5 million dollars to star in a beer commercial. He said he turned it down because he believed that a lot of his fans were young and impressionable
PVDn TIL that during WWII, when Japan occupied China, they built concentration camps that were filled with American, British and other European civilians living in China.
rjDx TIL That Johnny Knoxville has to use a catheter twice a day as a result of a stunt gone wrong