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TIL about Data Rot, a phenomena where stored data can gradually corrupted as the time goes on. This is why newly installed OS' are faster, and why they seem to slow down over time.

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l7B5r TIL about Ken Fritz, an audiophile that spent close to 30 years developing in his home what he and others consider the worlds greatest stereo sound system and listening room that boasts 35,000 watts, nine-foot-tall speakers, and a 1,500-pound turntable.
6E7Dl TIL Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside a Ukrainian man's house in Siberia to acknowledge that man's contribution to Apollo-11 Moon Mission
6Z97 TIL that Cate Blanchett’s Academy Award for playing Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator” made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor
rNYJx TIL that in times with a greater proportion of single men competing for fewer women, beards and mustaches became more fashionable
b9XwQ TIL Wham!'s single "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" is the highest-selling single ever to peak at #2 in the UK charts. They were kept from #1 by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Wham! donated all the royalties from "Last Christmas" to the Ethiopian famine appeal, Band Aid's cause.