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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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jyXv TIL Pakistan has a blasphemy law that doesn’t require corroborating evidence, just the word of one accuser, and has a mandatory death sentence.
Lkwjr TIL that in 1991 a US missile accidentally killed 28 people due to an error in how numbers were stored in the computer controlling the missile.
E1bxx TIL former Russian president Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the streets of Washington DC in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.
8eeGa TIL of the term Euphemism Treadmill: As words turn into a pejorative they get replaced by other words that turn into a pejorative
L97d TIL: A college text manufacturer sued a student that was importing their cheaper international versions into the US for resale. The case went to the Supreme Court.