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TIL that Sony created a music format called SACD (Super Audio CD) in 1999 that is still around and offers 5.1 surround sound on some albums and much higher sound quality then normal CDs.

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MeaG0 TIL about Posthuman Transhumanism, an ideology which seeks to develop and make available technologies that eliminate aging, enable immortality and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, in order to achieve a "posthuman future"
xbR7 TIL The conviction rate of Palestinians in Israeli military courts is 99.74%. Of the 9,542 cases, only 25 were fully acquitted (2011, source: Haaretz, Israeli newspaper).
WkLOX TIL in 1971 David Scott smuggled a 'Fallen Astronaut' sculpture onto the Apollo 15 lunar mission and placed it on the Moon's surface to "commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration."
MeGLa TIL Billie Eilish was born into the entertainment industry. She grew up in Los Angeles with both her parents being successful actors and her older brother already being in the music industry. She joined the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus at 8, and her brother wrote her debut song for her at 13.
VA6p TIL Attorneys from Coors brewery were appointed by Reagan to the EPA after campaign donations by Joseph Coors. The EPA then lifted restrictions on the dumping of toxic waste in Colorado, home of the Coors brewery.