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TIL Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data in 2014

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VePQ TIL that Jack McConaughey, Matthew McConaughey’s dad, died of a heart attack while having sex with his wife.
mQJY TIL that Chinese dissident and journalist Shi Tao was jailed for over 8 years after Yahoo! China facilitated his arrest by providing his personal details to the Chinese government.
xJxB TIL that liquid helium, at absolute zero (-459.67 F) will have zero viscosity and will actually defy gravity and flow upward.
VM0xQ TIL when Richard Feynman was in the State Curriculum Commission of California, he found out that some members of the committee which was responsible for choosing which books are used in public education had given a rating to not only unfinished, but completely blank textbooks [Page 173]
yQeBV TIL that bridesmaids all wear matching colors because of an old tradition that dictated they not only dress like each other but like the bride herself in order to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.