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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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Zp0QY TIL of Jean-Baptiste Lully, he was one of the early conductors for an orchestra. He had a rather strange way of conducting by pounding his staff on the floor. He died of a foot infection caused by him accidentally striking his foot with his own staff.
Oo8YL TIL that during screenings of the 1959 film The Tingler, - a film about a creature a creature that gets inside a person’s spine, causing them to feel a tingling which can only be stopped by screaming - buzzers were placed in random seats that caused the audience to feel tingling during the film.
ZpKeY TIL total solar eclipses happen only once every four hundred years, and the next one is on 4/8!
b6gG0 TIL Technically, you are never really "touching" anything because almost everything repel each other. When you are sitting in a chair, you are actually hovering above it at an unbelievably small distance.
9AYM TIL that in 1970, there were half as many people in the world as there are now