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TIL Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is so expensive and it takes years to fabricate it

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5YV0k TIL that Lauryn Hill fired her management and dropped out of the public eye in 2000 because she felt too compromised for the sake of the machine and uncomfortable for smiling at someone's face even when she did not like them.
graE7 TIL That Not only were programs & games once stored on audio cassettes, some of the earliest forms of program sharing & Data transmission were done via radio broadcasts with audio that you would record to a write a program to a cassette tape.
b9Yv0 TIL that Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant who draws detailed landscapes from memory and was featured in a BBC documentary as a child, now has his own gallery in London. A 76m panoramic memory drawing of New York is on display at JFK Airport. He was appointed an MBE in 2006.
696jW TIL that parasitic isopods change sex like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park but in reverse.
gMGb4 TIL the Soviet Union hosted the "Friendship Games" the year they boycotted the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Participating nations included 8 other socialist states and the reserve teams from other nations that did not qualify for the Olympics.