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TIL that qr codes have a very large margin of error

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DQ10D TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem - which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock - his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.
Zp5AB TIL that there was a point during the 1990s when TY beanie babies made up 10% of all sales on eBay.
nRk9 TIL in order to eliminate gender bias, many orchestras use blind auditions in which the candidates play their instrument behind a screen.
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