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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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eWp6 TIL that relativistic effects only become truly severe at very close to light speed: even someone travelling at 0.9 times the speed of light will only perceive time passing 2.29 times faster than it would be perceived from a stationary point of reference.
mQ1M TIL in the original Silent Hill video game, the fog covering the town was put in the game because of hardware limitations. Covering the town in fog meant that only the area surrounding the player at any given moment needed to be rendered
PXOG TIL The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”
DQ4j TIL There was a German Citizen who was kidnapped by the US Govt., tortured in Afghanistan for a few months and released into a desolate road in Albania when he was found innocent. All because his name sounded similar to a suspected terrorist.
VM894 TIL Colliding with a 1 centimeter paint fleck in orbit will do the damage of a 550 pound object traveling at 60 MPH on Earth