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TIL that in 2017, Sony and IBM produced a new tape system that can store nearly 3x the total number of books ever published in all of history.

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EnA7 TIL that during WWII, 4 Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army, to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the Soviet army, later to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the German army- finally being taken as prisoners of war by the American army.
yrDw TIL in an act of industrial espionage, a Japanese scientist who stole an incomplete capacitor design led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for companies like IBM, Dell, Apple, HP and Intel, in a decade long onslaught of faulty electronics known as The Capacitor Plague.
nWGGb TIL between 1969 and 1977, 95 African oryx (a type of large antelope) were released in southern New Mexico. There are now thousands of them in the state and that number continues go grow.
VWoQ TIL that Chris Rock picks small venues (50 people) and shows up unannounced to give new comedic routines (hundreds to thousands) in order to find out what jokes work/doesn’t.
XEn06 TIL in 2014, rollercoaster thrill-seekers were showered in blood after the ride decapitated a deer which ran onto the tracks. The Ultimate, the 2nd longest in the world at 7,442 ft / 1.4 miles, mostly hugs the hilly land at ground level, this was the second deer death (Yorkshire, England)