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Today I learned that the math, and human biology, behind listening to either analog or digital music, favors analog.

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VMmYZ TIL an annual celebration held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, by the Chinese during the summer solstice in which festival goers eat dog meat and lychees by boiling them alive, stating the suffering sends adrenaline to the muscles and increases flavor.
epmpE TIL the jigsaw puzzle was commercialized around 1760 by John Spilsbury. His design took world maps, and cut out the individual nations in order for them to be reassembled by students as a geographical teaching aid.
wkxP TIL As a struggling young writer, Harper Lee once got a year’s wages as a gift from a friend with a note, “You have a year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.
rN61e TIL the oldest professional football club of any code in the world is Melbourne Demons in the AFL
a8Y89 TIL that, as the name might suggest, Billboard magazine was originally the trade publication for bill posters and billboard installers.