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TIL about SuperDisk, a floppy disk developed by 3M in 1996 with up to 240 megabytes capacity. It had little success in North America and was discontinued in 2003

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Xmd6 TIL SS Leader Heinrich Himmler frequently carried out occult rituals in an ancient German castle, and may have believed he was the reincarnation of Germany’s first king
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