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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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8eQg8 TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its parking meters to a foreign-owned company, receiving a sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. Investors have collected $2.1 billion so far, for a yearly RoR of only 4.3%. Chicago has made a handsome profit.
dDx7E TIL that there is a Grammy equivalent for the creators of hold music called The MARCE Awards (MARketing & Creative Excellence). They are also known as The Holdies.
07D1 TIL That a New York man with a 13.5 inch penis has had a lifetime of complete strangers asking if they could see it, and when he was 10, had his first sexual encounter with an 18 year old girl.
gr1MX Today I learned many of the most popular pop songs, from the last 50 years use the same four cords.
MeB78 TIL it is unknown if Amerigo Vespucci ever learned that the New World would come to be named in his honor by cartographers prior to his death.