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TIL it is illegal to release balloons in the state of Florida

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WDw9 TIL that when German engineers were developing the MP3 file format, they used Suzanne Vega’s a capella song “Tom’s Diner” to test their creation, checking for loss of fidelity. She is now unofficially known as the “Mother of The MP3”
Zpg4B TIL: The Sumatran Striped Rabbit was discovered in 1880, not seen again until 1972, then not sighted again until 1998. One was rescued in 2021 after conservationists saw a post on Facebook about one caught by a farmer
PQaV TIL someone wrote a full 300+ page thesis on Micheal Bay’s Transformers trilogy, going into detail on how Optimus is a murderer and Megatron is a tragic hero.
VMy64 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was a major force in labor rights, implementing eight hour workdays and industry safety regulations, abolishing slavery in the Philippines and peonage more generally, investigating child labor claims, and establishing the forerunner to the USES, among many other things.
a8x89 TIL Manute Bol may have invented the phrase "My Bad"