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TIL most color laser printers sold today create an invisible code that records where and when a page was printed.

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N7nWb TIL When Fat'h Ali became the Shah of Persia in 1797 he read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica and changed his title to "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica".
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