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TIL Sony invented a process for CD mastering called "Super Bit Mapping" (SBM), which virtually allows a CD to have a bit depth of 20 bits per sample while still effectively using the PCM one of 16 bits.

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QbBM TIL that Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the U.S., did not mention his wife of 12 years even once in his 800 page autobiography
YOLv TIL there was a koi fish named Hanako that lived for 226 years
PYwLG TIL Napoleon's penis was cut off in an autopsy shortly after his death in 1821. It was purchased by John K. Lattimer in 1977, and is still held in his family, who keep it as a private item. It was described as similar to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel".
YlBv TIL that a Oleg Losev, a Russian inventor sans degree, discovered the LED, as well as negative resistance oscillators, amplifiers and superheterodyne receivers…all 25 years before the transistor. His only job title was technician.
rRaM0 TIL Honey is the only food that never expires. The same honey that was buried with the pharaohs in Egypt is still considered ‘edible’ by scientists.