stackyFACTSYour favorite childhood mixtape was secretly a marathon runner. Inside that cheap, clunky plastic shell sits roughly three hundred feet of magnetic ribbon, meaning if your boombox decided to eat the tape, it could easily decorate your entire living room in a tragic, shiny brown garland.
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