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TIL that the creator of the floppy disk, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, would routinely almost drown himself in order to spur creativity.

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wLOYJ TIL that when two countries trade with each other they can both be better off by trading the good that they specialize in producing at the lowest opportunity cost. This concept is explained by comparative advantage.
yVPka TIL the tallest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars that stands 22 km (14 miles) high, almost three times the height of Mount Everest.
Xlbj TIL Royal Marine Mark Gray saved 20,000 lives by draining the water from a dam before it was blown up by Serbian militia
5YKpk TIL about the Q source, a hypothetical text that, with the gospel of Mark, contain the original material that the gospels of Matthew and Luke elaborated upon. And the Q source theory got traction with the discovery of the complete copy of the gospel of Thomas in 1945.
LQLE9 TIL that Tennessee, Utah, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina license plates reverse order of numbers vs letters based on if the plate has In God We Trust on it.