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TIL that Sony didn’t stop making new floppy disks until March 2011…due to “lack of demand”

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dprB TIL That Britney Spears’ debut single “…Baby One More Time” peaked at No.1 in every country it charted in
yQ6Oa TIL Africa is an unincorporated community in Ohio, is named after the Underground Railroad and is thought to be the only town in the world named after the Underground Railroad.
ANwXB (TIL) today I learned about Hypersexuality, a presumed mental disorder that causes unwanted or excessive sexual arousal, causing people to engage in or think about sexual activity to a point of distress or impairment.
6E8gQ TIL: In the movie Gremlins (1984) monkeys were supposed to provide the special effects. The test monkey panicked when the mask was put on him and he ran around the editing room screaming and pooping everywhere.
J1bAl TIL in 1951, Clint Eastwood was on a military plane when its oxygen, navigation, and communications systems failed. As the fuel ran out, they crashed into the ocean off Point Reyes. Eastwood and the pilot survived, rowing through the dark on a life raft to a lighthouse, and were rescued.