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TIL Computer Shopper magazines used to be over 1000 pages, about 2 inches thick, and weigh over a pound. While at a Comdex trade show, some of the editors and writers took a pile of the magazines to a Las Vegas gun range and were surprised to discover the magazine could not stop a .22 caliber bullet

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7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
NQw8 TIL that airlines don’t pay tax on fuel
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