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TIL that a wedding ring that was lost for 45 years was found in a car engine a man bought for parts. Will Frye came across the ring when he was taking apart the V8 he’d pulled from a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 junker. He called the former owner and the 93 year old remembered losing it around 1973.

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4XNxN TIL Human genome is 3.3Gb in size. HIV virus is only 9.7kb. Largest known virus genome is 2.47Mb (pandoravirus salinus). Largest known vertebrate genome is 130Gb (marbled lungfish). Largest known plant genome is 150Gb (paris japonica). Largest known genome is 670Gb (Amoeboid) but is disputed.
1PlX TIL Dogs Have 13 Different Blood Types and Can Contain Different Combinations Of Each. Transfusion is Considered a “Freebie” and Doesn’t Have To Match Their Specific Blood Type.
5Vx5D TIL Óscar Taveras, whom Baseball America ranked as the third-best prospect in all of baseball in 2013, died in a car accident at the age of 22. His BAC was 0.287, nearly six times the legal limit for the Dominican Republic.
BXlL TIL in 2002, a 86 year old man was held 45min at the airport due to a strange metal item in his pocket that TSA couldn’t understand - it was a Medal of Honor.
awRRZ TIL that Zambia had its own space program in 1964, whose mission statement included sending "Afronauts": a crew consisting of a 17 year old space girl, a cat, and a priest to Mars. The priest was specifically instructed not to enforce Christianity of the Martians if they didn't want it.