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TIL Whoopi Goldberg is one of sixteen people who have EGOT status. This means she's won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

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Rdw4 TIL the average human sperm cell or spermocyte contains about 37.5Mb of genetic data. So when orgasm occurs, roughly 1.5Gb of data is ‘ejaculated’ in about 3 seconds, a data transfer rate 6 orders of magnitude, or a few million times, faster than an average internet connection.
RLw6 TIL that infants have died from a ritual known as metzitzah b'peh (removing the foreskin of the penis and the Rabbi places his mouth briefly over the wound, sucking a small amount of blood out) because the Rabbi had herpes.
ZlAG TIL a student at Harvard felt as his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. After the paper only received a B- he decided to study something else. Years later he would write Jurassic Park.
Wkyd TIL that in 2011, two Domino’s Pizza Store Managers were charged with arson after burning down a nearby Papa John’s in Southern Florida
GAerN TIL that a single gram of DNA can theoretically store 215 petabytes of data