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TIL of the Superman memory crystal, a nanostructured glass used for permanently recording digital data. It can store up to 360 terabytes worth of data for billions of years. It is so durable that even at 189 °C (372 °F), its decay time is comparable to the age of the Universe (13.8×10^9 years).

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kJGde TIL that for several years after the acclaimed 1974 film The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three came out, transit authorities would avoid having trains scheduled at 1:23.
xVYKw TIL about Diego the Hood Island giant tortoise, who was one of the 15 individuals of his kind that were left in 1976. Through a captive breeding effort, he fathered 900 offspring which helped increase the wild population to 2,000. Last year, he was released back into the wild.
GYMpg TIL about the female jockey who pissed off the NAZI Party by beating six acclaimed SS Officers in Czechoslovakia's biggest horse race, shortly before WWII broke out and Germany invaded the country.
yQbWp TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Armenian swimmer. In 1976, after completing his daily 20-km run, he came upon an accident scene where a trollybus had fallen into a reservoir. Karapetyan dived 10 meters into the water and pulled 46 people out of the bus, 20 of whom survived.
grZY8 TIL that the European Union suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales