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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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6EODm TIL the inventor of K-Cups regrets the idea. Why? Because the K-Cups are bad for the environment -- they are disposable and not recyclable.
n5Eo TIL The World’s 15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All The Cars In The World
b6Or7 TIL that babies have a reasting heart rate of 100 to 160 BPM
PjEg TIL there is a fruit called the Black Sapote aka the Chocolate Pudding Fruit, that tastes just like a chocolate pudding and contains 4 times the Vitamin C of an orange!
RK4Q TIL the word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron, with 'oxy’ deriving from the ancient greek for 'sharp’, and 'moron’ from 'dull’