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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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JYrO4 TIL the Steel Drum was created in Trinidad and Tobago after the British banned African percussion music and traditional stick-fighting after the Canboulay Riots in 1890. Steel Drums later emerged made from frying pans, dustbin lids, and, of course, oil drums due to the country's oil resources.
78DeO TIL Al Copeland, the founder of Popeyes, in the early 1960s spend 10 years in the doughnut business before creating his first restaurant that sells chicken.
wdEo TIL That the more successful Roman gladiators endorsed products before commencing a fight and would have their names on the Roman equivalent of billboards.
4XAm6 TIL: General Motors hired Prostitutes to discredit Ralph Nader
lvpV TIL the difference in time between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now