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TIL Sony made a digital camera in 1997 that stored images on a 3.5 inch floppy disk

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OGnMR TIL that after 35 years of age, the human brain shrinks in volume, starting at 0.2% a year and accelerating to over 0.5% a year by age 60. By age 90, the brain has lost on average 14% of its volume.
rxMw TIL that during the Falklands war, the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
KY95E TIL a white guy was the first to sag his pants, starting in the 1950's
epMLb TIL: In 1835, Ohio and Michigan went to war over a territorial dispute