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TIL scientists created a computer memory crystal that can store 360 TB of data/disc and last approx. a million years by using pure silica and storing the data in 5 dimensions

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Z8ZZQ TIL that Adolf Hitler praised the Native American genocide by the US government. In 1928 he said; "gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage."
5VWMD TIL that an Australian man survived a wildfire by scuba diving in his friend’s pool while the fire raged around him
QJQ19 TIL Viggo Mortensen is now the same age as Ian McKellen was when he was cast as Gandalf in LOTR.
nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
4bXX TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray worked part-time at a Little Caesars and was so poor he would eat raw pizza dough when no one was looking