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TIL: The San Francisco subway system still runs on 5 1/4-inch floppies

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XEYQk TIL there was so much fruitless speculation about the origin of language that scholars now refer to silly theories by nicknames: the bow-wow, pooh-pooh, ding-dong, yo-he-ho, ta-ta and la-la theories.
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