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TIL that Cassette Tapes have risen 103% in sales this year, on course to sell over 100,000 units by the end of the year, paralleling the final year they reached such numbers in 2003

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e0Nkg TIL if you climb to the altitude of 408 km from Earth, a person’s weight would be around 90% of what it would be on the ground. The ISS astronauts’ weightlessness is not because “space has no gravity”. Their weightlessness is due to them being in a free fall, constantly accelerating towards Earth.
eA86 TIL that after seeing it hit a low point in 2009, Domino’s Pizza saw their stock grow 233 percent within a year after changing their pizza recipe.
AD0yg TIL the Roadrunner not only eats rattlesnakes, but they beat the absolute shit out of them before they eat them.
D181P TIL about Grayson's syndrome, a syndrome so rare it's named after the only known case who is a little boy obsessed with baseball.
9YajD TIL in 2018 there was 752 acid attacks in London, more than 2 every single day.