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TIL Since the dawn of civilization, roughly 12,000 B.C., to 2003 A.D., only 5 exabytes (5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data has been created. Now, with the rise of the Internet’s influence in our daily lives, we produce this amount of data every two days.

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jZPp TIL - Salvador Dalí would avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on his check. His (often correct) assumption was that nobody would want to cash such valuable artwork.
Wk8vY TIL that the first alphabetical English dictionary was written by schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604 and the only surviving copy is found at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
10D TIL that a copy of ‘The Pond - moonlight’, a photograph shot in 1904 by photographer Edward Steichen, was sold for US $2.9 million in 2006 making it the most expensive photograph at the time.
E1n47 TIL over a third of the land in New Zealand is a protected National Park.
d8YZE TIL the best-selling edition of Playboy magazine was the November 1972, which sold over seven million copies, when one-quarter of all American college men were buying or subscribing to it every month. By 2014 circulation had declined to 320,000 per month and now it's published quarterly.