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TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.

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nW6Yb TIL Actor Lionel Royce, dismissed in Nazi Germany for being Jewish, retreated to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed his hair with hydrogen peroxide. he returned to stage as a "self-thought peasant actor" and was praised by the Nazi as proof of Aryan superiority
pYPYQ TIL that Dogs can smell stress from human sweat and breath. This means that dogs can be trained to preemptively offer comfort to sufferers of psychological illnesses like PTSD, to prevent attacks and improve quality of life
MeyVB TIL a shark at a New Zealand aquarium was discovered to be pregnant when another shark attacked her and 4 baby sharks emerged from the open wound. Staff were surprised and found 4 more babies in her. If she’d given birth at night, then her babies would have been eaten alive by other sharks.
l7KpA TIL most phones include FM radio hardware, but carriers and manufacturers have it disabled in software
5YNxr TIL that Silphium was an extremely popular plant was used as both a spice, perfume and medicine in classical antiquity. the high demand resulted in it being harvested to extinction and thus nobody has known its taste or smell for millennia.