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TIL that vinyl records are toxic

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LkOGp TIL of Katsuma Dan, a Japanese marine biologist who studied in the US before WW2 and who saved his marine lab with a note to advancing American forces asking to preserve his scientific work. (note in comments)
9wyo7 TIL Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, was so good at Tetris that Nintendo Power magazine eventually stopped publishing his high scores because he dominated the leaderboard.
Y7m7W TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do
VM554 TIL the maître d’ of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC for 50 years, Oscar Tschirky invented the velvet rope and the Waldorf salad
xV0j5 TIL from 1884 to 1955, Bombay (in India) used a timezone of UTC+04:51.