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TIL Hard drives will be physically faster if you format files to the outer edge of disk

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XLXX TIL that Rose Leslie (“Ygritte”) grew up in a castle ;her father being the chieftain of Clan Leslie. Kit Hartington (“Jon Snow”) is a distant cousin
gMPwD TIL The world’s deadliest serial killer, Luis Garavito, admitted to killing 140 people, and was sentenced to 835 years in prison. He was convicted on the deaths of 189 people over 7 years, and is suspected to have murdered many more.
lJ5G TIL that there is a mysterious and unexplainable “space roar” that is louder than anything else measured in space.
XEyJ8 TIL that Frederick Banting, the discoverer of Insulin, sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1, cause he believed that his discover "belongs to the world".
e08nJ TIL about Foinavon, the horse that won the 1967 Grand National at 100/1 odds when the other horses became involved in a pile-up.