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TIL that video tape degrades over time. Within 10 - 25 years, tape can lose as much as 20% of recorded video.

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Jv6k TIL that the Vatican says that followers of Pope Francis on twitter will have less time in Purgatory.
b9wMj TIL the US Confederacy only existed for 5 years. They officially formed in 1860 and collapsed in 1865 after its defeat in the US Civil War.
71yZ TIL that Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke’s stunt doubles from the bungee jumping scene in Season 2 of Scrubs met on set that day. They are now married.
1aR5X TIL that the "red eye" effect in flash photographs is caused by the flash bouncing off your retina. When you see "red eye", you are literally seeing the back of your eyeball through your dilated pupils.
rNW6w TIL: Children with a foreign mother are four times more likely than other children in Norway to be forcibly taken from their families and the number of children taken into emergency care rose by 50% in just 5 years with the commonest reason for a care order nowbeing simply "lack of parenting skills"