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If you look at the picture, they SHOW the actual byte in binary!

looks like it is 236 or 11101100

I want to know what this byte was a piece of. Probably Philosoraptor or some cat video.

Shit, I totally missed that, thanks!

Considering it may have been binary, and binary would make up the majority of it (images, sounds, video are large), I'm guessing 0x00.

Assuming a uniform distribution, there's only a 1/256 chance of that.

images, sounds, video are large

these are unlikely to be a uniform distribution though

These are usually compressed, so likely to be a uniform distribution.

The remainder isn't. There are always headers and such.

If they weren't, they could be compressed better.

42 of course!

Funny you should asterisk. (42 == '*')